Build a tablet that doesn't break if I drop it down a flight of stairs, and has 40 hours+ battery life and I will start caring. I don't even care if the thing is many times heavier than the current ipad models.
They're smart enough to run the world but not smart enough to pick up the fucking phone and actually confirm before they start writing checks and getting freaked out about brain tumors?
Smart people do not run the world. Democracy ensures that liars run the world.
I used to use cfengine but find puppet an easier tool to work with. Nagios and BackupPC are also wonderful tools but you might want to choose alternatives if they better fit your needs.
You might want to express some concerns to management just in case something critical does fall over you don't look quite so bad.
I meant the top end of Indian sweatshop coding outfits. I certainly didn't mean the top end of anything else. As you rightly say they don't compare to average coders from western countries.
I have seen them produce workable code though, just you have to pay for their top grade of coder and then it's not good code, just workable.
MS already has a development center in India Actually if they DO move to India, Linux will be dead cause Windows licences will cost $20 instead of $200 Remember, salaries for equivalent positions in India are significantly lower
Salaries are lower but quality sucks. If windows gets any worse it will not even boot.
I also found Indians say 'Yes' to everything even if they don't understand what you are talking about. That can cost days of lost work when you find out they didn't have a clue later.
I've seen the work infosys and wipro do. They are the high end of Indian programing sweatshops yet everything I've seen from them stinks. They promise the world but don't deliver any better than a first year degree student could in any developed country. Except a first year student would be cheaper, has the same time zone, and speaks the same language.
That's a bit different; if the owner or boss wants you to look at an email on *their system* it's authorized. I have had to do this & while I told them I wasn't comfortable doing it, I did it anyway. What I haven't done is do that without authorization - as others have said, it's not right.
That is highly questionable. You don't ignore your duty to the law or to what you know to be right just because your boss tells you to. Or rather you shoudn't.
I recall reading an article that said that all of Facebook's (then) hundreds of programmers all have full access to the live system data. Especially on top of the announcement that they want to double their employees in the next year or whatever, it sort of makes it hopeless to expect any sort of privacy there if anyone actually gets interested in you.
Facebook is and always has been a privacy disaster.
I disagree.... a person lacking confidence would probably be pissed no matter what and was just looking for validation. My friends and I in the same field openly discuss our wages/benefits only to know what's available out there. Am I getting screwed? Why is my pay lower? Is the grass *really* greener? No one openly gets upset with it.
You have a point. I was thinking about talking about pay with people who do a similar job in the same company. Everywhere I've ever worked pay had nothing to do with skills or work throughput but only how much you demanded when they interviewed you and how old you are. I'm really glad I became a contractor because permanent staff are just abused.
I find that hard to believe. I would have put it well above 50. Years back I ran an MDaemon mail server and let users have the IM client. Was pretty interesting reading, to say the least.
You sir, are a sleazebag.
If you want to know who is having an affair with whom just look for correlation in holidays and sickleave, you don't need to abuse the IT systems. You should be spending your time doing your job though, or trolling/. obviously.
There isn't an easy answer. All frameworks are great at getting you 80% done then make the last 20% nearly impossible.
What you know best is properly the right thing to use as long as it's capable of getting the job done and you can still find new staff who have some knowledge of it.
The thing I don't like about the Zagg keyboards is that they are just a tad too small. I understand that they are trying to fit the form factor of the iPad for creating a nice looking and natural feeling case. So I use the Zagg when I am on the go, but use a standard apple wireless keyboard when I am at my desk. I can't say I have completely switched over to the iPad for productivity apps, though, I prefer a much larger screen for my workspace.
Surely if you connect a keyboard to a tablet device you just destroyed the entire point of having a tablet. What you want is a lightweight laptop or netbook instead.
You're allowed to vote in the UK for up to 15 years after you move to another country (I was under the assumption it was 5, the law appears to have changed after I left) though I'm under the understanding it would technically be illegal for you to be a member of a political party in the UK whilst living overseas.
__According to the rules__. In practise you can't apply for a postal vote if you were not registered to vote when you left. If you were not renting and don't own anywhere it's practically impossible to be registered to vote. I simply moved address then left the country a few months later.
Unless you left the UK more than 15 years ago, you are eligible to vote in UK Parliamentary elections, EU Parliamentary elections and national referendums (source). If you've been abroad for more than 15 years, surely you could have got citizenship where you've settled by now?
I've been out of the country more like 6 years. It doesn't work the way you describe in practise. There are loopholes that mean it's impossible to get a postal vote or to be registered in any other way in the UK if you live abroad.
If you change address then change country before the voter registration man come around you will never get a vote and can't apply for a postal vote.
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Build a tablet that doesn't break if I drop it down a flight of stairs, and has 40 hours+ battery life and I will start caring. I don't even care if the thing is many times heavier than the current ipad models.
They're smart enough to run the world but not smart enough to pick up the fucking phone and actually confirm before they start writing checks and getting freaked out about brain tumors?
Smart people do not run the world. Democracy ensures that liars run the world.
I plan to plan Dutch course in The Hague [taaltaal.nl]
Err, what?
Ok, it's a tagline but it's more entertaining than the story anyway.
Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud?
No. Next story.
Quit? Do you give up on every task before you start?
Some of us like a challenge.
Also a list of what needs to be done can be used to justify extra people, new software, or new servers.
Yes, automate everything, monitor everything, backup everything, document everything.
I used to use cfengine but find puppet an easier tool to work with. Nagios and BackupPC are also wonderful tools but you might want to choose alternatives if they better fit your needs.
You might want to express some concerns to management just in case something critical does fall over you don't look quite so bad.
Wipro the top end?
don't make me laugh.
I meant the top end of Indian sweatshop coding outfits. I certainly didn't mean the top end of anything else. As you rightly say they don't compare to average coders from western countries.
I have seen them produce workable code though, just you have to pay for their top grade of coder and then it's not good code, just workable.
MS already has a development center in India
Actually if they DO move to India, Linux will be dead cause Windows licences will cost $20 instead of $200
Remember, salaries for equivalent positions in India are significantly lower
Salaries are lower but quality sucks. If windows gets any worse it will not even boot.
PLEASE let Microsoft move to India. Then it really will be year of the Linux Desktop.
You summed the problems up very well.
I also found Indians say 'Yes' to everything even if they don't understand what you are talking about. That can cost days of lost work when you find out they didn't have a clue later.
How about outsourcing to Canada?
I can't answer that. I've never dealt with Canadian programmers. It certainly won't give the same langage problems as India though.
I was really only thinking of the heavily overmarketed India outsourcers wrote my comment.
I've seen the work infosys and wipro do. They are the high end of Indian programing sweatshops yet everything I've seen from them stinks. They promise the world but don't deliver any better than a first year degree student could in any developed country. Except a first year student would be cheaper, has the same time zone, and speaks the same language.
That's a bit different; if the owner or boss wants you to look at an email on *their system* it's authorized. I have had to do this & while I told them I wasn't comfortable doing it, I did it anyway. What I haven't done is do that without authorization - as others have said, it's not right.
That is highly questionable. You don't ignore your duty to the law or to what you know to be right just because your boss tells you to. Or rather you shoudn't.
I recall reading an article that said that all of Facebook's (then) hundreds of programmers all have full access to the live system data. Especially on top of the announcement that they want to double their employees in the next year or whatever, it sort of makes it hopeless to expect any sort of privacy there if anyone actually gets interested in you.
Facebook is and always has been a privacy disaster.
Geeks are scum
Hash but a fair point. It's true because geeks are people and people often behave like scum.
I disagree.... a person lacking confidence would probably be pissed no matter what and was just looking for validation. My friends and I in the same field openly discuss our wages/benefits only to know what's available out there. Am I getting screwed? Why is my pay lower? Is the grass *really* greener? No one openly gets upset with it.
You have a point. I was thinking about talking about pay with people who do a similar job in the same company. Everywhere I've ever worked pay had nothing to do with skills or work throughput but only how much you demanded when they interviewed you and how old you are. I'm really glad I became a contractor because permanent staff are just abused.
I find that hard to believe. I would have put it well above 50. Years back I ran an MDaemon mail server and let users have the IM client. Was pretty interesting reading, to say the least.
You sir, are a sleazebag.
If you want to know who is having an affair with whom just look for correlation in holidays and sickleave, you don't need to abuse the IT systems. You should be spending your time doing your job though, or trolling /. obviously.
Not true. I have had plenty of access to such information and have always avoided looking at it. It's immoral.
Strongly agree. Plus if caught is destroys the trust that keeps them paying you, and it won't bring you happiness on any level anyway.
Anytime a person tells another person how much they get paid one of them gets very pissed off. You are better off not knowing.
There isn't an easy answer. All frameworks are great at getting you 80% done then make the last 20% nearly impossible.
What you know best is properly the right thing to use as long as it's capable of getting the job done and you can still find new staff who have some knowledge of it.
The thing I don't like about the Zagg keyboards is that they are just a tad too small. I understand that they are trying to fit the form factor of the iPad for creating a nice looking and natural feeling case. So I use the Zagg when I am on the go, but use a standard apple wireless keyboard when I am at my desk. I can't say I have completely switched over to the iPad for productivity apps, though, I prefer a much larger screen for my workspace.
Surely if you connect a keyboard to a tablet device you just destroyed the entire point of having a tablet. What you want is a lightweight laptop or netbook instead.
So it's like an expensive netbook, but you can only run programs approved by Apple?
What's the point?
Exactly. Why doesn't this guy just use a small laptop, notebook, or netbook? He could do more and it would cost less.
Either there is something we are both missing here or it's just a matter of 'oh, shiney!'
Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives?
No.
You're allowed to vote in the UK for up to 15 years after you move to another country (I was under the assumption it was 5, the law appears to have changed after I left) though I'm under the understanding it would technically be illegal for you to be a member of a political party in the UK whilst living overseas.
__According to the rules__. In practise you can't apply for a postal vote if you were not registered to vote when you left. If you were not renting and don't own anywhere it's practically impossible to be registered to vote. I simply moved address then left the country a few months later.
Unless you left the UK more than 15 years ago, you are eligible to vote in UK Parliamentary elections, EU Parliamentary elections and national referendums (source). If you've been abroad for more than 15 years, surely you could have got citizenship where you've settled by now?
I've been out of the country more like 6 years. It doesn't work the way you describe in practise. There are loopholes that mean it's impossible to get a postal vote or to be registered in any other way in the UK if you live abroad.
If you change address then change country before the voter registration man come around you will never get a vote and can't apply for a postal vote.