>> Gorsuch will "face cases that demand a solid command of the complex issues digital technology raises..."
If you think a 49-year old justice will be bad at tech, you should look up the ages of the rest. There's even one on there named "Ginsburg" who was 35 when Gorsuch was born - probably time for her to finally head out to pasture, right?
You are green, grasshopper. Look up "protected classes" and then do some research on the hoops HR and interviewers have to jump through to avoid being sued. Long story short, there's not much "first amendment" left if you're a company/target of any size.
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/l/6342/e-of-developer-nation-2017-pdf/3qp35l (also, the form is cool with mailinator addresses if that stops working)
https://ufile.io/26f4a
Also, here's the extracted text of the Key Insights:
• Developers who work in areas with a higher technical complexity or in very young sectors - and therefore with higher barriers to entry and ultimately fewer developers doing it - generally earn more. In Western Europe, for example, the median backend developer earns 12% more than the median web developer; a machine learning developer makes 28% more. Web and mobile development are the most commoditised. • We’re still a long way off a global market for developers. The median earnings of web developers in Western Europe are half of those of their North American counterparts; web developers in other regions earn half again. This opens up arbitrage opportunities for developers willing to work remotely. • C# is the most popular primary programming language amongst Augmented and Virtual Reality developers, preferred by 30% of them. This is followed by C/C++ (16%) and Java (15%). Interestingly, professionals are more likely to use C# or C++ in comparison to hobbyists. • Almost 90% of AR/VR developers would be considered juniors by other industries’ standards, having less than 2 years experience. The industry consists of many newcomers who are inexperienced in the field - they will not be deeply invested in any tools, technologies or platforms, so any vendor has the potential to establish market leadership with the right product. • 48% of web developers are currently using a third-party library or framework other than jQuery as their primary way of doing front-end web development. Angular and React account for 30%, leaving all the others fighting for the remaining 18%. Indeed front-end web development is such a fragmented space that no other single library or framework accounts for more than 2% of primary usage. • Facebook’s React appears to dominate Google’s Angular in online discussion and open source activity. However, not only is Angular 2.x the primary framework for about as many developers as React (10% vs 9% globally), but Angular 1.x is still the most popular overall by a slim margin (11% use it as their primary framework). In total those using one or the other version of Angular number more than double those using React. • Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular primary cloud hosting at every company size. For the smallest companies (1-5 employees) where Amazon has just a 15% share, they face very credible competition from Microsoft (12%), Google (11%), and Digital Ocean (10%). However, when we look at larger companies, Amazon’s share grows to 26-27% at every size, Microsoft stays in the 11-13% range, while Google fades along with Digital Ocean. Google has just a 5% share of companies with more than 5,000 employees, and Digital Ocean just 4% at the same size. • AWS is also the most popular primary cloud host with developers regardless of targeted audience, although strongest with backend developers who target large enterprises, of whom 29% are primarily using AWS. Microsoft shows greater strength equally with developers who target large enterprises, and those who target small to medium businesses (14% each). They are weaker with those targeting consumers (11%) or professionals (9%). Google shows the opposite patternbeing strongest with developers who target consumers(10%) but only half as popular with those who target large enterprises or internal employees. • Despite the proliferation of IoT platforms and other tools, the IoT tool market is still underdeveloped and heavily fragmented. IoT developers use comparatively fewer tools than their colleagues in other software sectors. 11% of IoT developers don’t use any of the tools in our list. &#
1) Start here with an item on Amazon. Note that it's sold by someone else: https://www.amazon.com/Avolusion-AVPS4HD-N2T-Playstation-Hard-Drive/dp/B0172JHDK6/ref=lp_1254762011_1_25?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1490218688&sr=1-25-spons&psc=1
2) Pull up the item on the someone else's site: https://www.goharddrive.com/PS4-Hard-Drive-s/235.htm
3) Contact the vendor via their published contact information and ask them to price-match their own Amazon item (with shipping): https://www.goharddrive.com/aboutus.asp
They will if they try to run a lot of them on a machine with finite resources, like a phone. Or it's a process that's iterated frequently, like a "big data" operation. But if the end user STILL doesn't notice it...then it's hard to call it a bug.
On the other hand, the performance/just-get-er-done trade-off is well known to programmers of all stripes. (At least I hope it is - are people really finding new value in the article?) There's the quick and dirty way (e.g., a script), and then there's the "I can at least debug it" way (e.g., a program developed in an IDE), and then there's the optimized way, where you're actually seeing if key sections of code (again, especially the iterated loops), are going as fast as possible. Generally your time/cost goes up as your optimization increases, which becomes part of the overall business decision: should I invest for maximum speed, maximum functionality, maximum quality, etc.
These days I treat Amazon like I treat Expedia: I use the site to find a couple of reputable-looking, US-based vendors (on Expedia, it would be hotels/airlines) who appear to be selling something at a good price, and then I go to those vendor's sites directly and order off the vendor's eComm store directly. (And if there's a price difference, I contact support before-hand and get my item priced-matched with the Amazon deal.)
It's just not worth it to get any more Amazon "suh-plizes" since crap suppliers somehow keep getting injected in the chain. (I stopped using Expedia early on when they comingled "cannot cancel" flights/hotels with "cancellable" ones; I often want the flexibility that booking direct provides.)
>> iceland, norway, switzerland are happiest places
So...the UN is telling us that the way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then? Was the lead author a guy named Adolf, perhaps?
I just got boned this weekend during some video editing by an UPDATING NOW...OOPS CRASHING!...RESTART...CRASH...RESTART...CRASH... sequence that took 2 hours and a bootable USB stick to resolve I've been relying on switching my network to a "metered" connection to avoid getting crapped on when I'm just trying to get something done, but it looks like that's about to become a thing of the past. Thank you Microsoft! May I have another?
Alternatively, you could stop spying on everything everyone does, and use some of that money to cover your new toys.
Out here in the real world, we're about done writing blank checks for "national security" and "them terrists". No one would ever notice if you cut your mission in half.
Trust me - salespeople hate open offices even more than we do. They measure status by commissions, size/location of office (no door - doesn't count), company car, etc. And having other people close enough so their prospects can hear them talk over the phone or a web conference is drop-dead unprofessional and a clear indication to the prospect that they're chatting with some low-level schmuck that might need his mommy, er, manager to help negotiate final terms.
>> What if the open office is causing retention problems
That's part of the design, especially in cases where established corporations move to open offices (sometimes coupled with a move "downtown"). The idea is to flush the older, more expensive workers out without actually creating an age-ist environment that would get the company sued.
>> affecting the quality of our end products?
Let me know when you see "quality" as a top goal of a software group.
>> executives and high-performance employees tend to optimize against completely different trade and life principles
Not necessarily true. Remember that Superbowl commercial where some douche walks through an open office and then goes into his private office? In that respect, many executives and HPEs (not HPVs - that's an STD) are similar.
>> 54% of HPEs find their office environment "too distracting."
I actually like open offices more than most people, but I do find myself bitching that I'm distracted and then taking a long walk or coffee break I didn't really need, so thanks everyone else for creating the perception that bugging out of the open office for extended periods is cool.
Pretty sure you can't blame humans for the warming coming out of the last Ice Age. Or the "Little Ice Age" in the pre-industrial area. It would be stranger to think that humans are the primary driver of sea ice increase or decrease today. (Looking at you, @manbearpig.)
Speaking of whoring karma for the afterlife, here's the talk itself (missing from the reliably crappy article summary):
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP67508
When your community numbers over 1.2 billion people and you’ve been in operation for over 2,000 years, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to integrating new media and technology. The Vatican's iterative engagement of the "Digital Continent" stands in contrast to the velocity of mainstream technology adoption. Yet its unique approach to Twitter, Instagram and digital video have helped make the Pope the most influential world leader online.
This first-of-its kind SXSW discussion will shed light on how the world's oldest and largest community is adapting to and leveraging new media to encourage a new form of disruption: one guided by understanding, empathy and compassion.
MAR 12, 2017 | 12:30PM – 1:30PM Primary Access: Interactive Badge, Platinum Badge Secondary Access: Film Badge, Music Badge Format: Panel Event Type: Sessions Track: Brands & Marketing Level: Advanced
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>> Gorsuch will "face cases that demand a solid command of the complex issues digital technology raises..."
If you think a 49-year old justice will be bad at tech, you should look up the ages of the rest. There's even one on there named "Ginsburg" who was 35 when Gorsuch was born - probably time for her to finally head out to pasture, right?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx
>> What about the First Amendment?
You are green, grasshopper. Look up "protected classes" and then do some research on the hoops HR and interviewers have to jump through to avoid being sued. Long story short, there's not much "first amendment" left if you're a company/target of any size.
Sorry - I've only ever worked for private companies in the tech industry for the past twenty years. What is this "pension" you speak of?
I'm reading "Slow News Day" by "Tufuk Inglazee, Turight Anartical"
>> Otherwise the guillotines are going to make a comeback...
You don't think Trump's election over the Marie Antoinette of our time was a shot across that bow?
>> Maybe the government should pay them to break windows [wikipedia.org] to generate jobs for glaziers.
Or, we could create an easy-entry, revolving-door justice system to generate jobs for prison guards, social workers, attorneys, etc.
Here are some direct links to avoid the form:
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/l/6342/e-of-developer-nation-2017-pdf/3qp35l
(also, the form is cool with mailinator addresses if that stops working)
https://ufile.io/26f4a
Also, here's the extracted text of the Key Insights:
• Developers who work in areas with a higher technical complexity or in very young sectors - and therefore with higher barriers to entry and ultimately fewer developers doing it - generally earn more. In Western Europe, for example, the median backend developer earns 12% more than the median web developer; a machine learning developer makes 28% more. Web and mobile development are the most commoditised.
• We’re still a long way off a global market for developers. The median earnings of web developers in Western Europe are half of those of their North American counterparts; web developers in other regions earn half again. This opens up arbitrage opportunities for developers willing to work remotely.
• C# is the most popular primary programming language amongst Augmented and Virtual Reality developers, preferred by 30% of them. This is followed by C/C++ (16%) and Java (15%). Interestingly, professionals are more likely to use C# or C++ in comparison to hobbyists.
• Almost 90% of AR/VR developers would be considered juniors by other industries’ standards, having less than 2 years experience. The industry consists of many newcomers who are inexperienced in the field - they will not be deeply invested in any tools, technologies or platforms, so any vendor has the potential to establish market leadership with the right product.
• 48% of web developers are currently using a third-party library or framework other than jQuery as their primary way of doing front-end web development. Angular and React account for 30%, leaving all the others fighting for the remaining 18%. Indeed front-end web development is such a fragmented space that no other single library or framework accounts for more than 2% of primary usage.
• Facebook’s React appears to dominate Google’s Angular in online discussion and open source activity. However, not only is Angular 2.x the primary framework for about as many developers as React (10% vs 9% globally), but Angular 1.x is still the most popular overall by a slim margin (11% use it as their primary framework). In total those using one or the other version of Angular number more than double those using React.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular primary cloud hosting at every company size. For the smallest companies (1-5 employees) where Amazon has just a 15% share, they face very credible competition from Microsoft (12%), Google (11%), and Digital Ocean (10%). However, when we look at larger companies, Amazon’s share grows to 26-27% at every size, Microsoft stays in the 11-13% range, while Google fades along with Digital Ocean. Google has just a 5% share of companies with more than 5,000 employees, and Digital Ocean just 4% at the same size.
• AWS is also the most popular primary cloud host with developers regardless of targeted audience, although strongest with backend developers who target large enterprises, of whom 29% are primarily using AWS. Microsoft shows greater strength equally with developers who target large enterprises, and those who target small to medium businesses (14% each). They are weaker with those targeting consumers (11%) or professionals (9%). Google shows the opposite patternbeing strongest with developers who target consumers(10%) but only half as popular with those who target large enterprises or internal employees.
• Despite the proliferation of IoT platforms and other tools, the IoT tool market is still underdeveloped and heavily fragmented. IoT developers use comparatively fewer tools than their colleagues in other software sectors. 11% of IoT developers don’t use any of the tools in our list.
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>> salary earners in AR
Clearly, they're nothing but a bunch of thieving pirates.
Sure, here's an example.
1) Start here with an item on Amazon. Note that it's sold by someone else:
https://www.amazon.com/Avolusion-AVPS4HD-N2T-Playstation-Hard-Drive/dp/B0172JHDK6/ref=lp_1254762011_1_25?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1490218688&sr=1-25-spons&psc=1
2) Pull up the item on the someone else's site:
https://www.goharddrive.com/PS4-Hard-Drive-s/235.htm
3) Contact the vendor via their published contact information and ask them to price-match their own Amazon item (with shipping):
https://www.goharddrive.com/aboutus.asp
4) Buy it from the vendor.
Congratulations - you've invented the "message queue".
>> that the user may never know they are there
They will if they try to run a lot of them on a machine with finite resources, like a phone. Or it's a process that's iterated frequently, like a "big data" operation. But if the end user STILL doesn't notice it...then it's hard to call it a bug.
On the other hand, the performance/just-get-er-done trade-off is well known to programmers of all stripes. (At least I hope it is - are people really finding new value in the article?) There's the quick and dirty way (e.g., a script), and then there's the "I can at least debug it" way (e.g., a program developed in an IDE), and then there's the optimized way, where you're actually seeing if key sections of code (again, especially the iterated loops), are going as fast as possible. Generally your time/cost goes up as your optimization increases, which becomes part of the overall business decision: should I invest for maximum speed, maximum functionality, maximum quality, etc.
These days I treat Amazon like I treat Expedia: I use the site to find a couple of reputable-looking, US-based vendors (on Expedia, it would be hotels/airlines) who appear to be selling something at a good price, and then I go to those vendor's sites directly and order off the vendor's eComm store directly. (And if there's a price difference, I contact support before-hand and get my item priced-matched with the Amazon deal.)
It's just not worth it to get any more Amazon "suh-plizes" since crap suppliers somehow keep getting injected in the chain. (I stopped using Expedia early on when they comingled "cannot cancel" flights/hotels with "cancellable" ones; I often want the flexibility that booking direct provides.)
Surprise! The crew is be Hillary Clinton and her daughter. Oddly enough, Bill didn't object...
>> I, myself, am...
Good grief, are all Outlook users this pedantic? (Learn to use a reflexive pronoun, 'aight?)
And why isn't everyone using Gmail or something better by now?
>> iceland, norway, switzerland are happiest places
So...the UN is telling us that the way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then? Was the lead author a guy named Adolf, perhaps?
I just got boned this weekend during some video editing by an UPDATING NOW...OOPS CRASHING!...RESTART...CRASH...RESTART...CRASH... sequence that took 2 hours and a bootable USB stick to resolve I've been relying on switching my network to a "metered" connection to avoid getting crapped on when I'm just trying to get something done, but it looks like that's about to become a thing of the past. Thank you Microsoft! May I have another?
Welcome to the third world.
Alternatively, you could stop spying on everything everyone does, and use some of that money to cover your new toys.
Out here in the real world, we're about done writing blank checks for "national security" and "them terrists". No one would ever notice if you cut your mission in half.
>> maybe some of the sales people
Trust me - salespeople hate open offices even more than we do. They measure status by commissions, size/location of office (no door - doesn't count), company car, etc. And having other people close enough so their prospects can hear them talk over the phone or a web conference is drop-dead unprofessional and a clear indication to the prospect that they're chatting with some low-level schmuck that might need his mommy, er, manager to help negotiate final terms.
>> What if the open office is causing retention problems
That's part of the design, especially in cases where established corporations move to open offices (sometimes coupled with a move "downtown"). The idea is to flush the older, more expensive workers out without actually creating an age-ist environment that would get the company sued.
>> affecting the quality of our end products?
Let me know when you see "quality" as a top goal of a software group.
>> executives and high-performance employees tend to optimize against completely different trade and life principles
Not necessarily true. Remember that Superbowl commercial where some douche walks through an open office and then goes into his private office? In that respect, many executives and HPEs (not HPVs - that's an STD) are similar.
>> 54% of HPEs find their office environment "too distracting."
I actually like open offices more than most people, but I do find myself bitching that I'm distracted and then taking a long walk or coffee break I didn't really need, so thanks everyone else for creating the perception that bugging out of the open office for extended periods is cool.
Pretty sure you can't blame humans for the warming coming out of the last Ice Age. Or the "Little Ice Age" in the pre-industrial area. It would be stranger to think that humans are the primary driver of sea ice increase or decrease today. (Looking at you, @manbearpig.)
>> what's the difference between three significant digits and 25
Said no computer science major, ever. (Look up the effect of iteration on small differences, then study up on damping, etc.)
Even Newton knew that, as per TFA.
Speaking of whoring karma for the afterlife, here's the talk itself (missing from the reliably crappy article summary):
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP67508
When your community numbers over 1.2 billion people and you’ve been in operation for over 2,000 years, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to integrating new media and technology. The Vatican's iterative engagement of the "Digital Continent" stands in contrast to the velocity of mainstream technology adoption. Yet its unique approach to Twitter, Instagram and digital video have helped make the Pope the most influential world leader online.
This first-of-its kind SXSW discussion will shed light on how the world's oldest and largest community is adapting to and leveraging new media to encourage a new form of disruption: one guided by understanding, empathy and compassion.
MAR 12, 2017 | 12:30PM – 1:30PM
Primary Access: Interactive Badge, Platinum Badge
Secondary Access: Film Badge, Music Badge
Format: Panel
Event Type: Sessions
Track: Brands & Marketing
Level: Advanced
> (blah).africa
Too long, didn't type. Why didn't they just steal ".af" (Afghanistan today, but common abbreviation for Africa)?