It's a bit of both: you need students who are taught good programming, but no matter how good their education, it's unlikely that they will be familiar with all of your tools and procedures. They will need some serious handholding.
"we don't hire junior developers because we can't afford to have our senior developers mentor them"
This is why I quit my last employer around 10 years ago (been freelancing ever since). At the time, I was a medior dev. I don't consider myself to be a senior developer even though that was my job title. I maintain that my former employer didn't have any senior devs because they killed that position as well. A senior dev is someone who is not only outstanding in his or her field, with a lot of experience under his belt, but also someone who increases the value of the entire team by actively mentoring and coaching the juniors. If you are not coaching anyone, you have no business calling yourself a senior anything. And just like many companies no longer seem interested in hiring juniors and training them, they are no longer interested in growing their experienced technical staff into positions of leadership. Technical leadership, not project management. Or, god forbid, enterprise architecture.
On the project I did before I quit, 3 junior devs were assigned to the team (they were still hiring those). Instead of letting them fail fast and ask for more experienced replacements - the usual approach - I and the lead architect decided to coach them on the job. There wasn't much to it really, but what a difference a year made. Those juniors were able to perform well in the next team... and commanded higher fee rates as well. That's why I was baffled by the refusal of the company to pay for or even allow any formal, structured coaching. The usual excuse: they'll become better and then leave. But it's the other way around: if your employees have to claw their way up instead of being offered a helping hand, the good guys will leave while you'll be stuck with the driftwood.
Tossing stuff is bad for your wallet... so how many people really do that? Old phones get handed down or sold. Same as old cars and computers.
Stuff does get harder and more expensive to repair though, especially appliances.
That's what they said about Japan: they make shitty copies, no, they make good copies, wait, Japanese products are putting ours to shame.
In actual tech (not these web and app based services TFA calls "tech"), innovation, industrial design and quality control, the Chinese are getting there. I've worked with some first rate original Chinese software, and just this weekend got my hand on an upcoming product designed in China (not a knockoff of a Western device). First class stuff that competes with the top brands here and is actually better in some ways. Their English language manuals are actually useful now, and they are finally waking up to the fact that Times New Roman is a poor choice of font to use on buttons and equipment, and looks especially shitty when printed in gold. The coming years will will continue to see a flood of cheap rubbish coming from China... but the amount of quality Chinese original goods is set to increase. Western designers take note. And you can be sure that China will pay more attention to IP laws when that trend continues.
Solution: let them split the services: YT Red for music, YT Blue for original content, and YT Clear for no ads and offline viewing (included in the other subscriptions). And offer it overseas already!
That depends. If they are expanding in our neck of the galactic woods, and do not have the means to easily go to other distant solar systems (i.e. have no FTL travel that lets them go anywhere at the blink of an eye), then they might well see us as potential competition, and decide it's best to wipe us out before we spread. Would aliens undertake an incredibly long - perhaps multi generation - journey at enormous cost just to say hi? Perhaps. But they certainly would to wipe out a perceived thread to their existence.
That's the sad part: even if Facebook the Platform dies, Facebook the Evil Empire will persist and turn promising new up and comers into data snooping suckfests.
I used to be opposed to direct democracy. I thought a representative democracy is best, where we choose our rulers and those rulers make the difficult decisions. And referendums are problematic, just look at Brexit. Or at the Dutch referendum on the EU constitution, with both sides of the issue playing on emotions. "If you vote against, the lights will go out and we will have war", as an example statement from a government member.
However during the referendum on the treaty with the Ukraine I saw kind of the opposite: utterly uninformed politicians voting blindly, and rather well informed ordinary voters (on both sides of the issue) not just voting but able to state their case, and explain rationally why they'd vote one way or the other. Sure, voters are still being played, but in general, I have been seriously disappointed in the quality of the decisions made by our politicians. Their insights aren't necessarily better than those of the general populace. And many (but not all) of them have the wrong set of priorities: their own career, the party interests, business friends, future job opportunities, and only then they think of the good of the country. That is a heavy accusation to make, but I no longer hesitate to make it; the evidence is all around us.
Direct voter influence on the power structure (how I worded it) is not at all the same as direct democracy (i.e. referendums). It simply means that those in power are elected by the voter rather than appointed or voted on by a committee. Or failing that, having sufficiently powerful democratic oversight over appointed rulers. In case of the EU, a good start would be to give more power to parliament.
This. As a European, I am glad the EU exists and I applaud the good that it has brought, but its political structure is deeply flawed. "Hold democracy dear" is not a term I would apply to the likes of Druncker, Schulz, and many of the Commissioners. There is not enough direct voter influence on the EU power structure, and that's not merely undesirable, but dangerous. We need those fail safes.
Anyway, even if the messages were sent from a corporate device, are employers in the US allowed to read those? Here in Europe, many countries uphold the right to privacy even on corporate devices. An employer may monitor traffic to allow them to enforce company IT policies, but no further. They can check if you are sending or receiving emails, and they may have an automatic system scan them for virii, but they are absolutely forbidden to have any corporate humanoid peruse the content of those emails. Neither are they allowed to follow your every move, even in the workplace.
Maybe not. I wasn't all that happy with the demise of the 3.5mm jack, but at least the new iPhone is sort of waterproof now, and I got a pair of Airpods... Now there's a product that looks, feels and works like old-school Apple stuff.
EU Companies pay VAT, but there's more than just their purchases involved. When they buy something, the tax they pay* is offset by the sales tax they collect from their own sales (which they have to transfer to Internal Revenue). Example with a 10€ VAT: a metalworker buys €100 worth of steel stock and pays €10 VAT on that. He turns that steel into iPhone SIM ejector pins and sells those for €200, collecting €20 VAT on those sales. Each month, he deducts the VAT he paid from the VAT he collected, and sends the balance (€10 this month) to the tax collector, effectively paying VAT only on the value he added. Hence the name: Value Added Tax.
So yes: they get a better price on stuff than an individual would, but they get taxed on whatever value they create with it.
*) In many cases, companies have the option to not pay VAT to their suppliers. In this case our metalworker would not pay €10 to his supplier, but would pay €20 to the tax man. The total tax paid is the same; the idea is to simplify bookkeeping somewhat.
That’s a large part of the problem. There’s this popular restaurant review and reservation site that’s been around for a good while. At first they were quite useful and charged only a small fee to restaurant owners. Then they started to charge a percentage for each reservation, and as the site grew in popularity, that percentage increased, by quite a bit. As did the terms and conditions: prices on the site must be the lowest, no advertising on competing platforms, that sort of thing. Some restaurant owners took their place off the site... and saw the number of diners plummet. But recently they banded together, and the Restaurant Business Association (of which most restaurants are a member) launched their own reservation site without reviews (which were useless anyway), with many members pulling out of the commercial site.
I can see something similar happening with delivery services. Already, many delivery boys will ask you to order direct from their own site next time, instead of one of the popular (and increasingly expensive) 3rd party takeout services. Per the terms and conditions of those services they are not allowed to do this, but they do so anyway just to keep their margins up... while passing some of the savings on to the customer. For small restaurants, these delivery services are very convenient but they are pricing themselves out of the market... as restaurant owners discover that they do have other options.
Also, Wonka's entire factory should probably be shut down. The work safety hazards are out of this world and he is clearly irresponsible to the point that would be considered criminal.
Quite. From the hilarious Rifftrax version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; when Wonka comments on the deficiencies of Slugworth's moral character, one of the riffers mentions: "As opposed to enslaving a race of little people and making them power your yacht...".
Wonka's "golden ticket" would also be banned under these rules. Clearly it had an unhealthy effect on kids.
I'd be interested to see what the criteria are though. For instance: Battlefield 4 has loot boxes that you can win in-game but also buy in the store, however regular playes will collect more than enough of then during play, and I don't know of a single player who has ever spent any money to purchase them. The items in those boxes are useful but are not particularly rare, and cannot be traded. Not really a problem. In constrast: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has loot boxes that do contain rare, tradeable (but purely cosmetic) items that apparently change hands for serious cash (or used to at least). Especially rare items from locked lootboxes that require a key to open; a key that can only be bought with real money.
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I mean tahts why we all started using google in the first place right?
Altavista started that trend.
"we don't hire junior developers because we can't afford to have our senior developers mentor them"
This is why I quit my last employer around 10 years ago (been freelancing ever since). At the time, I was a medior dev. I don't consider myself to be a senior developer even though that was my job title. I maintain that my former employer didn't have any senior devs because they killed that position as well. A senior dev is someone who is not only outstanding in his or her field, with a lot of experience under his belt, but also someone who increases the value of the entire team by actively mentoring and coaching the juniors. If you are not coaching anyone, you have no business calling yourself a senior anything. And just like many companies no longer seem interested in hiring juniors and training them, they are no longer interested in growing their experienced technical staff into positions of leadership. Technical leadership, not project management. Or, god forbid, enterprise architecture.
On the project I did before I quit, 3 junior devs were assigned to the team (they were still hiring those). Instead of letting them fail fast and ask for more experienced replacements - the usual approach - I and the lead architect decided to coach them on the job. There wasn't much to it really, but what a difference a year made. Those juniors were able to perform well in the next team... and commanded higher fee rates as well. That's why I was baffled by the refusal of the company to pay for or even allow any formal, structured coaching. The usual excuse: they'll become better and then leave. But it's the other way around: if your employees have to claw their way up instead of being offered a helping hand, the good guys will leave while you'll be stuck with the driftwood.
Tossing stuff is bad for your wallet... so how many people really do that? Old phones get handed down or sold. Same as old cars and computers. Stuff does get harder and more expensive to repair though, especially appliances.
Ivan will simply find a sucker to take out the ad for him, for a small fee. This is feel good fake news security theatre.
That's what they said about Japan: they make shitty copies, no, they make good copies, wait, Japanese products are putting ours to shame.
In actual tech (not these web and app based services TFA calls "tech"), innovation, industrial design and quality control, the Chinese are getting there. I've worked with some first rate original Chinese software, and just this weekend got my hand on an upcoming product designed in China (not a knockoff of a Western device). First class stuff that competes with the top brands here and is actually better in some ways. Their English language manuals are actually useful now, and they are finally waking up to the fact that Times New Roman is a poor choice of font to use on buttons and equipment, and looks especially shitty when printed in gold. The coming years will will continue to see a flood of cheap rubbish coming from China... but the amount of quality Chinese original goods is set to increase. Western designers take note. And you can be sure that China will pay more attention to IP laws when that trend continues.
Solution: let them split the services: YT Red for music, YT Blue for original content, and YT Clear for no ads and offline viewing (included in the other subscriptions). And offer it overseas already!
Seriously? Sure, we did some crazy and - in retrospect - stupid things in my days, but nothing at these levels of stupidity and pointlessness.
That depends. If they are expanding in our neck of the galactic woods, and do not have the means to easily go to other distant solar systems (i.e. have no FTL travel that lets them go anywhere at the blink of an eye), then they might well see us as potential competition, and decide it's best to wipe us out before we spread. Would aliens undertake an incredibly long - perhaps multi generation - journey at enormous cost just to say hi? Perhaps. But they certainly would to wipe out a perceived thread to their existence.
That's the sad part: even if Facebook the Platform dies, Facebook the Evil Empire will persist and turn promising new up and comers into data snooping suckfests.
I wish Youtube would get their thumb out and offer Red in my country already.
I used to be opposed to direct democracy. I thought a representative democracy is best, where we choose our rulers and those rulers make the difficult decisions. And referendums are problematic, just look at Brexit. Or at the Dutch referendum on the EU constitution, with both sides of the issue playing on emotions. "If you vote against, the lights will go out and we will have war", as an example statement from a government member.
However during the referendum on the treaty with the Ukraine I saw kind of the opposite: utterly uninformed politicians voting blindly, and rather well informed ordinary voters (on both sides of the issue) not just voting but able to state their case, and explain rationally why they'd vote one way or the other. Sure, voters are still being played, but in general, I have been seriously disappointed in the quality of the decisions made by our politicians. Their insights aren't necessarily better than those of the general populace. And many (but not all) of them have the wrong set of priorities: their own career, the party interests, business friends, future job opportunities, and only then they think of the good of the country. That is a heavy accusation to make, but I no longer hesitate to make it; the evidence is all around us.
Direct voter influence on the power structure (how I worded it) is not at all the same as direct democracy (i.e. referendums). It simply means that those in power are elected by the voter rather than appointed or voted on by a committee. Or failing that, having sufficiently powerful democratic oversight over appointed rulers. In case of the EU, a good start would be to give more power to parliament.
This. As a European, I am glad the EU exists and I applaud the good that it has brought, but its political structure is deeply flawed. "Hold democracy dear" is not a term I would apply to the likes of Druncker, Schulz, and many of the Commissioners. There is not enough direct voter influence on the EU power structure, and that's not merely undesirable, but dangerous. We need those fail safes.
Wasn't NASA already (before the Trump administration) looking for buyers?
"Please shut your laptop and don't reopen it"
Sounds like a line from Manna.
Anyway, even if the messages were sent from a corporate device, are employers in the US allowed to read those? Here in Europe, many countries uphold the right to privacy even on corporate devices. An employer may monitor traffic to allow them to enforce company IT policies, but no further. They can check if you are sending or receiving emails, and they may have an automatic system scan them for virii, but they are absolutely forbidden to have any corporate humanoid peruse the content of those emails. Neither are they allowed to follow your every move, even in the workplace.
Maybe not. I wasn't all that happy with the demise of the 3.5mm jack, but at least the new iPhone is sort of waterproof now, and I got a pair of Airpods... Now there's a product that looks, feels and works like old-school Apple stuff.
So of all of Apple's ideas, they decided to copy that atrocity...
It sounds like the issue is that selling BTC isn't properly covered by existing VAT rules.
EU Companies pay VAT, but there's more than just their purchases involved. When they buy something, the tax they pay* is offset by the sales tax they collect from their own sales (which they have to transfer to Internal Revenue). Example with a 10€ VAT: a metalworker buys €100 worth of steel stock and pays €10 VAT on that. He turns that steel into iPhone SIM ejector pins and sells those for €200, collecting €20 VAT on those sales. Each month, he deducts the VAT he paid from the VAT he collected, and sends the balance (€10 this month) to the tax collector, effectively paying VAT only on the value he added. Hence the name: Value Added Tax.
So yes: they get a better price on stuff than an individual would, but they get taxed on whatever value they create with it.
*) In many cases, companies have the option to not pay VAT to their suppliers. In this case our metalworker would not pay €10 to his supplier, but would pay €20 to the tax man. The total tax paid is the same; the idea is to simplify bookkeeping somewhat.
By the time we're building a Dyson sphere
Out of what, wood? This material sounds like just the thing...
How many parsecs? *hides*
That’s a large part of the problem. There’s this popular restaurant review and reservation site that’s been around for a good while. At first they were quite useful and charged only a small fee to restaurant owners. Then they started to charge a percentage for each reservation, and as the site grew in popularity, that percentage increased, by quite a bit. As did the terms and conditions: prices on the site must be the lowest, no advertising on competing platforms, that sort of thing. Some restaurant owners took their place off the site... and saw the number of diners plummet. But recently they banded together, and the Restaurant Business Association (of which most restaurants are a member) launched their own reservation site without reviews (which were useless anyway), with many members pulling out of the commercial site.
I can see something similar happening with delivery services. Already, many delivery boys will ask you to order direct from their own site next time, instead of one of the popular (and increasingly expensive) 3rd party takeout services. Per the terms and conditions of those services they are not allowed to do this, but they do so anyway just to keep their margins up... while passing some of the savings on to the customer. For small restaurants, these delivery services are very convenient but they are pricing themselves out of the market... as restaurant owners discover that they do have other options.
Also, Wonka's entire factory should probably be shut down. The work safety hazards are out of this world and he is clearly irresponsible to the point that would be considered criminal.
Quite. From the hilarious Rifftrax version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; when Wonka comments on the deficiencies of Slugworth's moral character, one of the riffers mentions: "As opposed to enslaving a race of little people and making them power your yacht...".
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The real question is: will #4 shock me?
Wonka's "golden ticket" would also be banned under these rules. Clearly it had an unhealthy effect on kids.
I'd be interested to see what the criteria are though. For instance: Battlefield 4 has loot boxes that you can win in-game but also buy in the store, however regular playes will collect more than enough of then during play, and I don't know of a single player who has ever spent any money to purchase them. The items in those boxes are useful but are not particularly rare, and cannot be traded. Not really a problem. In constrast: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has loot boxes that do contain rare, tradeable (but purely cosmetic) items that apparently change hands for serious cash (or used to at least). Especially rare items from locked lootboxes that require a key to open; a key that can only be bought with real money.