Nah. You just slap together a web page with icons on it, every morning a script runs and all the icons turn green. Test ran! All passed! Extra points for putting the results into a csv and mailing them to a manager.
You mean you can't write a script to scrape the website and parse and compare them using a scripting language of your choice? You need to find a different line of work,
Nope. That's just business. No businessman ever wants a "level playing field" or a "Free Market". They want a skewed playing field and a captured market. Why would thy want anything else. Competition just hurts them. The only way to have anything approaching a a Free Market is through careful regulation. e.g. by breaking up monopolies or restricting unfair competition.
And 40 hour work weeks, union like labor rules, all Federal holidays off, etc.
As opposed to me working for a Fortune 50 tech company with 50 to 60 hours a week, working late on the phn talking to monkey coders in the low cost programmer nation of the moment, working holiday, and sometimes "vacations", and under constant threat of layoff.
BS. COBOL is easy to pick up. In addition most of the code is in "maintenance" mode meaning no real scratch development which gives a person time to learn it.
In addition many of the "commodity" programmers I have met are bound and determined to write in COBOL idioms in [JAVA | C# | C++ | Python| programming flavor of the month] .
Other posters have pointed out some ways to do this but I will mention virtualization. IBM created an OS called "VM" which stands for..... wait for it.... "Virtual Machine". In the 1970s .
In addition the good old CDO/CDS crash thing. And running at cash reserves at legally allowable but recklessly imprudent levels by financial institutions but finding creative ways to gloss them over.
They've been stable for decades. I'll take master files on floppy disks and programs written by people who cared over "eventually consistent" databases developed by "just good enough" monkeys any day.
ES is dying and the industry is consolidating. It makes sense. What is left is mostly storage (including support for legacy tape drives!), networking, and software. And yes VMWare but also Open Stack.
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Nah. You just slap together a web page with icons on it, every morning a script runs and all the icons turn green. Test ran! All passed! Extra points for putting the results into a csv and mailing them to a manager.
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You mean you can't write a script to scrape the website and parse and compare them using a scripting language of your choice? You need to find a different line of work,
Nope. That's just business. No businessman ever wants a "level playing field" or a "Free Market". They want a skewed playing field and a captured market. Why would thy want anything else. Competition just hurts them. The only way to have anything approaching a a Free Market is through careful regulation. e.g. by breaking up monopolies or restricting unfair competition.
A mobile app that actually does something useful.
who cares? I still have bills to pay
and systems will require you to rewrite the kernel so that the gnome solitaire app won't leak memory.
He's the Howard Hughes of our time....
It also freezes itself through starvation, war, disease, etc. Sooner or later you will run out of at least one critical resource.
Which company. I'd like to apply.
And 40 hour work weeks, union like labor rules, all Federal holidays off, etc.
As opposed to me working for a Fortune 50 tech company with 50 to 60 hours a week, working late on the phn talking to monkey coders in the low cost programmer nation of the moment, working holiday, and sometimes "vacations", and under constant threat of layoff.
I'd switch.
BS. COBOL is easy to pick up. In addition most of the code is in "maintenance" mode meaning no real scratch development which gives a person time to learn it.
In addition many of the "commodity" programmers I have met are bound and determined to write in COBOL idioms in [JAVA | C# | C++ | Python| programming flavor of the month] .
I am speaking from direct experience.
Other posters have pointed out some ways to do this but I will mention virtualization. IBM created an OS called "VM" which stands for..... wait for it.... "Virtual Machine". In the 1970s .
I guess you've never heard of this candle. I can't imagine it is isolated:
http://www.accounting-degree.o...
In addition the good old CDO/CDS crash thing. And running at cash reserves at legally allowable but recklessly imprudent levels by financial institutions but finding creative ways to gloss them over.
It means corrupted inconsistent "good enough" data. I've had plenty of that over the years.
They've been stable for decades. I'll take master files on floppy disks and programs written by people who cared over "eventually consistent" databases developed by "just good enough" monkeys any day.
Will it run Windows XP?
They had the DEC Alpha and then gave it away to Intel for promises. So yes, it was the clueless suits.
oops. I meant Carly
Dismantling Carl's and the two clowns legacy. HP Inc. was mostly Compaq and ES was the purchase of EDS. Which isn't too bad of an idea.
ES is dying and the industry is consolidating. It makes sense. What is left is mostly storage (including support for legacy tape drives!), networking, and software. And yes VMWare but also Open Stack.
Capitalism is great if you have capital. If you don't it rapidly begins to resemble slavery.
If by "shareholder" you mean "upper management" you are correct/ The only function of a corporation is to enrich upper managers.
And decide which species live or die? I know we have done it before, e.g. wiping out the tasmanian tiger, but is morally and ethically defensible?
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