Studies have shown that most people who hate apple fanboys are themselves closeted apple fanboys who are subconsciously terrified to confront that fact.
Hold on - WHY do you need a CS degree to work as a programmer? Apparently something like 15% of people working at Google nowadays don't have bachelors degrees.
When it comes to hiring developers, if you have relevant experience, that is ALL that is important to MOST companies. Get some web pages together with some interesting Javascript, AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, whatever. Read a book on developer interview questions and learn how to write a recursive algorithm and reverse an array and perhaps a basic sort or two... this can be done in a day or two. Go find yourself a junior developer position paying $60k per year (not hard in Silicon Valley) and you'll prepare yourself for a $100k job within a year far more effectively than a CS degree... which will prepare you for the $60k job.
If you already know how to code, and you are a self-learner, you are 80% of the way there. Move out to Silicon Valley, start combing through craigslist, and call up companies looking for junior roles (speak with a person, don't just email them a resume). If you get past a phone screen and get to an in-person interview, right there you have at least a 25% shot of getting the job. One, three, five or six interviews later... you will be hired an on your way... figure on up to two or three months.
If you want to make life easier for yourself, hook up with a few tech recruiters. They will line up interviews for you all day long. Just put "developer" somewhere on your LinkedIn profile and they will start to call you.
Stop philosophizing and just move to the center of the action and start acting. It's not as hard as you think.
Long-story-short-summary: Go to Whole Paycheck, buy the food, skip the ONE WORLD! ONE MIRACLE! DR. BRONNER SOAPS! and you'll narrowly avoid being labeled a vegetarian hippie pagan whose holistic massage business is doing particularly well.
Well, Grasshopper, or Unschooled Acolyte, or whatever your title of choice may be...
You did not hear this from me.
But most developers belong to the Church of Pain and we pride ourselves on our arcane talents, strange cryptic mumblings and most of all, the rewards due the High Priesthood to which we strive to belong.
Let me put it bluntly. Some of this very complicated logic is complicated because it's very complicated. And pretty little tools would do both the complexity and us injustice, as high priests or priests-in-training of these magical codes.
One day we will embrace simple graphical tools. But only when we grow bored and decide to move on to higher pursuits of symbolic reasoning; then and not a moment before will we leave you to play in the heretofore unimaginable sandbox of graphical programming tools. Or maybe we'll just design some special programs that can program on our behalf instead, and you can blurt out a few human-friendly (shiver) incantations, and watch them interpret and build your most likely imprecise instructions into most likely unworkable derivative codes. Or you can just take up LOGO like they told you to when you were but a school child in the... normal classes.
It's clear this is merely some darknet to protect the black market for Swiss chocolate smuggling. But at last my secret Toblerone stash will be untraceable. So I got that going for me.
Well they were definitely building something that distracted them. Because in all my years of web development, IE has definitely been the most standards-compliant browser. I've never heard of a situation in which IE did not render something correctly, or in a non-standard fashion, or in any kind of fashion that causes developers to scream at the screen, angrily toss their mouse outside the window, and yell foul obscenities at a Bill Gates they cannot see, in a place far away where they cannot touch.
Real world SQL injection usually ends badly. The last SQL injection that actually worked in real life was The Empire Strikes Back. So yes. I agree. SQL injection is usually a disaster.
Alice locks her signed copy of the book in the chest with her lock. She sends the chest to Bob. He slaps his lock on it. And send the chest back to Alice. She correctly interprets this as a big FU from Bob and takes a chainsaw to open up the chest and get her damn book back since he obviously doesn't want it.
Here's my review... after using Drupal extensively on several projects, I can tell you the best way to make money with Drupal is not to use it in the first place.
It's absolutely amazing how quickly trying to do anything even remotely interesting in Drupal turns your codebase into a nightmarish, unmanageable mess.
Well, at the least first six time you build a Drupal website. After that you'll have learned enough to realize the investment will never quite pay off. You might as well code up a site from scratch in PHP, Javascript, jQuery and HTML/CSS. You'll have the same problems putting it together, but at least you'll be able to find developers who can maintain it without a four month straight vertical learning curve to the land of 35%-of-normal productivity.
Ok, rant over. Drupal lovers can mod me down now. But from my perspective, the only people who should be loving Drupal are consultants getting paid by the hour. Because it's one heck of a top-dollar billable-hour generator.
The question of what "we" get is not very meaningful until there is an actual "we." And if you are talking about programmers making mass-scale demands of any significance, you first need to have a common base of opinion for that mass to have a unified voice.
Now let me ask you -- if programmers were inclined to join together in this kind of way, wouldn't that first have expressed itself as some kind of coherent economic grouping like -- say -- a union? I'm sure there are a few unionized programmers out there... uh... somewhere... but I've personally never met one, ever.
So if they won't do this for a core economic interest (salary, working conditions) then how realistic is this idea that there would be some kind of coherent constituency agititating for something "in return" for DRM? Because as it turns out, quite a few programmers benefit from being employed by companies with a stake in DRM. And that is, on some level, almost every for-profit company on the internet which makes it business selling proprietary information (content, programs, web services). Which is just about everyone, besides the relatively small proportion of economic activity at companies relying on open-source business models.
This is not about programmers at all. If anyone is going to complain, it's "consumers." There are a lot more of them, and the population of potential complainers is much larger. Whether or not that means diddly squat in a major capitalist system where all the for-profit internet-connected companies really, truly ARE a significantly incentivized interest group that pretty much like the perceived benefits of DRM... well, color me skeptical about that.
So I'm not going to respond to the first post because it makes no sense. But I'll happily use the "first reply" spot, thank you very much, to actually say something.
This $2 billion plant breaks down to close to $30,000 per home serviced. Seems a wee bit excessive, considering the average home electric bill in Arizona runs something like $200 (I researched the web for a few minutes to estimate this).
Consider that installing a home solar system would run something like $10-$20k at most in a sunny place like Arizona (considerably less w various tax incentives).
Looking like a bit of a boondoggle?
Hold on for a second here, people. Let's remember for just one second... These students... they chose (ok - an assumption on my part - they presumably chose) to intern at Foxconn. FOXCONN.
Putting physical devices together is what they DO. That's their entire POINT in the universe. What are these kids thinking, that they'd be working on advanced logistics and supply chain management right out of the gate? There are two kinds of jobs in a contract manufacturer. Ones you can train for over a week, and ones you can train for over a year (or more). Not a whole heck of a lot in between. On some level you gotta ask -- what did these kids expect? If you don't want to learn (by doing) some assembly, then you're really looking for an internship somewhere else.
The most troublesome thing about this nuclear pipe water tipping incident is that there is nothing funny about it.
What possible humor is there in this? Shall we call the place "Tipco" or something? Shall we make jokes about the water itself, and say silly things like, "Oh, they spilled water? Hopefully it wasn't heavy water! Get it? Hehe." Dumb stuff like that. Or talk about the fact that at least they were wearing protection. So they won't get a disease. Surely, that joke would be pregnant with humor.
This is the trouble with posting on Happy Hump Day.
Billions of Chinese cyberattacks per day on American companies are the issue. Planets trillions of miles away? Not so much.
Any honest analysis shows that China is "borrowing" knowledge from the USA as fast as humanly possible. It's enough of a courtesy that we do indeed allow their citizens to study and work here. We've done a fair job of maintaining decent civil and trade relationships despite a strained rivalry. Beyond that, the Chinese government and military apparatus can always take some responsibility for improving the relationship further.
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Studies have shown that most people who hate apple fanboys are themselves closeted apple fanboys who are subconsciously terrified to confront that fact.
Hold on - WHY do you need a CS degree to work as a programmer? Apparently something like 15% of people working at Google nowadays don't have bachelors degrees. When it comes to hiring developers, if you have relevant experience, that is ALL that is important to MOST companies. Get some web pages together with some interesting Javascript, AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, whatever. Read a book on developer interview questions and learn how to write a recursive algorithm and reverse an array and perhaps a basic sort or two... this can be done in a day or two. Go find yourself a junior developer position paying $60k per year (not hard in Silicon Valley) and you'll prepare yourself for a $100k job within a year far more effectively than a CS degree... which will prepare you for the $60k job. If you already know how to code, and you are a self-learner, you are 80% of the way there. Move out to Silicon Valley, start combing through craigslist, and call up companies looking for junior roles (speak with a person, don't just email them a resume). If you get past a phone screen and get to an in-person interview, right there you have at least a 25% shot of getting the job. One, three, five or six interviews later... you will be hired an on your way... figure on up to two or three months. If you want to make life easier for yourself, hook up with a few tech recruiters. They will line up interviews for you all day long. Just put "developer" somewhere on your LinkedIn profile and they will start to call you. Stop philosophizing and just move to the center of the action and start acting. It's not as hard as you think.
Why go through all that trouble? If your hard drive had anything important on it to begin with, it would equal 42.
Five point five percent?
This not Klingon beer, humans.
This dilute breast milk.
So does this mean we can expect our special hardened ATM Linux OS to have names like Filching Finch, Moneybiting Mongoose, Overcharging Oranguatan?
If they thought finding gravitational waves was hard, just wait until they try to locate a drooling autotroph.
Long-story-short-summary: Go to Whole Paycheck, buy the food, skip the ONE WORLD! ONE MIRACLE! DR. BRONNER SOAPS! and you'll narrowly avoid being labeled a vegetarian hippie pagan whose holistic massage business is doing particularly well.
Well, Grasshopper, or Unschooled Acolyte, or whatever your title of choice may be...
You did not hear this from me.
But most developers belong to the Church of Pain and we pride ourselves on our arcane talents, strange cryptic mumblings and most of all, the rewards due the High Priesthood to which we strive to belong.
Let me put it bluntly. Some of this very complicated logic is complicated because it's very complicated. And pretty little tools would do both the complexity and us injustice, as high priests or priests-in-training of these magical codes.
One day we will embrace simple graphical tools. But only when we grow bored and decide to move on to higher pursuits of symbolic reasoning; then and not a moment before will we leave you to play in the heretofore unimaginable sandbox of graphical programming tools. Or maybe we'll just design some special programs that can program on our behalf instead, and you can blurt out a few human-friendly (shiver) incantations, and watch them interpret and build your most likely imprecise instructions into most likely unworkable derivative codes. Or you can just take up LOGO like they told you to when you were but a school child in the... normal classes.
Does that answer your impertinent question?
It's not about being the frist pole. It's about being the first best poler who can spell.
It's clear this is merely some darknet to protect the black market for Swiss chocolate smuggling. But at last my secret Toblerone stash will be untraceable. So I got that going for me.
Well they were definitely building something that distracted them. Because in all my years of web development, IE has definitely been the most standards-compliant browser. I've never heard of a situation in which IE did not render something correctly, or in a non-standard fashion, or in any kind of fashion that causes developers to scream at the screen, angrily toss their mouse outside the window, and yell foul obscenities at a Bill Gates they cannot see, in a place far away where they cannot touch.
Real world SQL injection usually ends badly. The last SQL injection that actually worked in real life was The Empire Strikes Back. So yes. I agree. SQL injection is usually a disaster.
Alice locks her signed copy of the book in the chest with her lock. She sends the chest to Bob. He slaps his lock on it. And send the chest back to Alice. She correctly interprets this as a big FU from Bob and takes a chainsaw to open up the chest and get her damn book back since he obviously doesn't want it.
My bluetooth won't work. My USB won't work. That's sucks. But I got first post. So I got that going for me.
Here's my review... after using Drupal extensively on several projects, I can tell you the best way to make money with Drupal is not to use it in the first place. It's absolutely amazing how quickly trying to do anything even remotely interesting in Drupal turns your codebase into a nightmarish, unmanageable mess. Well, at the least first six time you build a Drupal website. After that you'll have learned enough to realize the investment will never quite pay off. You might as well code up a site from scratch in PHP, Javascript, jQuery and HTML/CSS. You'll have the same problems putting it together, but at least you'll be able to find developers who can maintain it without a four month straight vertical learning curve to the land of 35%-of-normal productivity. Ok, rant over. Drupal lovers can mod me down now. But from my perspective, the only people who should be loving Drupal are consultants getting paid by the hour. Because it's one heck of a top-dollar billable-hour generator.
The Beatings Will Continue... Until the Firmware Improves.
Oh great. The burger outlets have discoverd pay-by-phone. Next thing they will discover micropayments. And then we'll have pay-by-fry.
The question of what "we" get is not very meaningful until there is an actual "we." And if you are talking about programmers making mass-scale demands of any significance, you first need to have a common base of opinion for that mass to have a unified voice. Now let me ask you -- if programmers were inclined to join together in this kind of way, wouldn't that first have expressed itself as some kind of coherent economic grouping like -- say -- a union? I'm sure there are a few unionized programmers out there ... uh... somewhere... but I've personally never met one, ever.
So if they won't do this for a core economic interest (salary, working conditions) then how realistic is this idea that there would be some kind of coherent constituency agititating for something "in return" for DRM? Because as it turns out, quite a few programmers benefit from being employed by companies with a stake in DRM. And that is, on some level, almost every for-profit company on the internet which makes it business selling proprietary information (content, programs, web services). Which is just about everyone, besides the relatively small proportion of economic activity at companies relying on open-source business models.
This is not about programmers at all. If anyone is going to complain, it's "consumers." There are a lot more of them, and the population of potential complainers is much larger. Whether or not that means diddly squat in a major capitalist system where all the for-profit internet-connected companies really, truly ARE a significantly incentivized interest group that pretty much like the perceived benefits of DRM... well, color me skeptical about that.
So I'm not going to respond to the first post because it makes no sense. But I'll happily use the "first reply" spot, thank you very much, to actually say something. This $2 billion plant breaks down to close to $30,000 per home serviced. Seems a wee bit excessive, considering the average home electric bill in Arizona runs something like $200 (I researched the web for a few minutes to estimate this). Consider that installing a home solar system would run something like $10-$20k at most in a sunny place like Arizona (considerably less w various tax incentives). Looking like a bit of a boondoggle?
Hold on for a second here, people. Let's remember for just one second... These students... they chose (ok - an assumption on my part - they presumably chose) to intern at Foxconn. FOXCONN. Putting physical devices together is what they DO. That's their entire POINT in the universe. What are these kids thinking, that they'd be working on advanced logistics and supply chain management right out of the gate? There are two kinds of jobs in a contract manufacturer. Ones you can train for over a week, and ones you can train for over a year (or more). Not a whole heck of a lot in between. On some level you gotta ask -- what did these kids expect? If you don't want to learn (by doing) some assembly, then you're really looking for an internship somewhere else.
The most troublesome thing about this nuclear pipe water tipping incident is that there is nothing funny about it. What possible humor is there in this? Shall we call the place "Tipco" or something? Shall we make jokes about the water itself, and say silly things like, "Oh, they spilled water? Hopefully it wasn't heavy water! Get it? Hehe." Dumb stuff like that. Or talk about the fact that at least they were wearing protection. So they won't get a disease. Surely, that joke would be pregnant with humor. This is the trouble with posting on Happy Hump Day.
Drinking beer for hydration purposes... good luck with that.
Billions of Chinese cyberattacks per day on American companies are the issue. Planets trillions of miles away? Not so much. Any honest analysis shows that China is "borrowing" knowledge from the USA as fast as humanly possible. It's enough of a courtesy that we do indeed allow their citizens to study and work here. We've done a fair job of maintaining decent civil and trade relationships despite a strained rivalry. Beyond that, the Chinese government and military apparatus can always take some responsibility for improving the relationship further.
You're with us, or you're with the twitterists!
100 terabucks seems like a lot but when you compare it to the 200 terabucks under-the-table business-to-employee market, it kind of takes a back seat.