I've worked at a lot of companies in my career and some are fine with you doing a 9-5 so long as you get your work done well and on time. Others such as a certain investment bank I worked at were more interested in appearance than output - if you left at 5 they thought you were slacking even if you did twice as much work as the guy who spent most of the day surfing the web but left at 7pm. Sadly this shallow management mentality ended up with me in front of HR despite me closing more bug tickets than almost everyone else in the team. With that kind of small minded mentality its no wonder they couldn't keep the best for very long and IT was populated by people with little coding talend and no life to speak of who didn't mind spending 12 hours a day at their desk.
Meltdowns are almost always a combination of bad reactor design + human error. Both of these can be mitigated.
People seem to conveniently forget that france has generated > 50% of its grid electricity from nuclear for over 50 years without a single major incident.
Yeah, but OS/X has its own issues - OS/X specific system APIs in Objective-C? Ugh. Proprietary graphics and sound subsystems (X support now hived off to an OSS team so who knows how long that will last) , uppercase/lowercase issues with filenames, and a number of other things. I'm not saying OS/X is bad, its just not the perfect Unix enviroment either.
"I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on"
Not that your a paranoid nutjob or anything. What are you expecting, a home invasion by Chuck Norris?
Yeah, because lots of elderly people will be working with high voltage USB. As for that 10%, its not even close to that high and electrical cables already so I guess they won't be working as electricians.
"Using color as the sole means of communicating critical information is stupid, at best."
What, you mean like traffic lights and railway signals?
"the "one plug for everything" trend that began with USB Type C is a step in the wrong direction."
I disagree. I'm utterly fed up with multiple different types of USB plug, some of them very similar making it an utter pain finding a cable with the correct connectors on both ends. There is zero reason to have all these - its not for space reasons like RS232 had its 9 pin plug since even the largest USB connector is pretty small.
"you end up with a situation where you simply do not know if a cable or port can do what you need it to do."
In 99% of cases you simply need to connect 2 devices, its not complex. If there is a max voltage/current issue then colour code the cables, but DONT create yet another sphagetti soup of connectors.
... and immediatelly went into full riverdance knee-jerk mode clearly without even having a clue about what nuclear fusion is. The worrying thing is that people like you have a vote.
A small amount of petrol mixed in with the diesel in a CR engine won't actually do it any harm so long as it only happens the once or twice. Its when the fuel is majority petrol that the problems start.
Oooo, startups. Get you! Low wages, long hours and the company goes bust or gets bought out for its IP in a year. Either way you're out of a job. Enjoy!
"but I'm sure you can agree that salary is also not a strong indicator of being able to program "
Ha, you don't know much about real companies do you.:o) Idiots get fired before they get anywhere near a good salary here in the UK and with crap references they go nowhere and end up serving lattes for a living.
"we can use each other as evidence of that."
What evidence? All I see is your narcissist boasting with nothing to back it up. But hey, you can do functional programming, incredible! I was doing that in ML back in 91-93 sonny and it was just as useless then as it is now. Forced stateless recursion and call-by-value really isn't that much use in real world programming unlike the toy stuff you clearly do.
"you would be the one doing this for money."
Yes, because funnily enough adults have financial responsibilities, bills to pay and whats known as "kids" to support. When you meet something known as "a woman" (perhaps you've heard of them) you might even have some yourself.
"Which I believe brings us right back around to you being an asshole"
Actually yanky, its spelt "arsehole" - I don't own a donkey. However I've certainly been talking to one.
"let's not pretend like they're an indicator of whether someone can program. "
Not always, but they are an indicator that the person is interested in computers and has made the effort to learn more about them so the chances are that they can program better than someone who hasn't done a degree.
"You should post where you work so that people know to avoid it."
If they're the sort of people who've learnt some noddy scripting language at home and think they're ready for prime time corporate development on the 24/7 systems written in C++ here they wouldn't get an interview in the first place so you don't need to worry.
"Finances, location, and time are all required to make it through a degree program, and there are plenty of people who lack those things"
I don't know what country you're in, but here in the UK people get a loan. Location? Whats that got to do with it. You have to leave mummies apron strings eventually. Time? Time for what? Does the family need you to run the corner shop?
"Instead of berating these people perhaps you could show a modicum of empathy and understand that others don't have the same opportunities that you did."
I worked hard to get my A levels to get into a uni and I worked for 18 months before I went there to save up extra money for when I was there instead of bumming around in the far east smoking dope. Opportunity had nothing to do with it.
... will usually be the ones without any formal qualifications who picked up [insert trendy language de jour here] on their own and now write cut and paste sphaggetti code because they have no idea of how to structure a program properly and know next to no useful algorithms. Everything they produce is either mickey mouse code or code blocks from a code site glued together lego brick style and hoping it works.
Just FYI - on my CS course I learnt processor and board architecture, networking (TCP down to ethernet frames + routing principles), AI, relational DBs + normalisation, graphics algorithms, formal proofs and CUI design amongst other things.
I suspect like a lot of people who've never done a degree but work with people who have you have a huge chip on your shoulder and to make yourself feel better you pretend degrees are useless. Well they're not which if you were smart enough to actually get one you'd realise.
I started on Slackware back in the 90s, left for a while after going to DeadRat then Suse but came back after getting sick of things Just Not Working with the aformentioned "professional" distros. So I thought what the hell, installed slackware 13.0 on my laptop, everything worked (and I mean everything, even the wifi and printer out the box with minimal configuration) and I've stuck with it since. And now with systemd taking over most other distros I have no plans on changing.
Wish I had mod points. The cynicism with which Apple disguise their blatant cost cutting and built in obsolescence under the banner of "innovation" is just staggering. Almost as staggering as the number of rich dumb fanboys and other sheeple who actually believe it.
We don't all replace a perfectly working gadget every few years just for shiny shiny!, not just because of the monetary cost but because of the ethics and enviromental costs. So some of us do care that they're built to last.
"While bus drivers will lose their job, new jobs will be created elsewhere, e.g.: When people save money by not owning a car, they will likely spend that money elsewhere, e.g.: eating at restaurants more often."
I love the way people like you handwavingly dismiss the loss of jobs and pretend they'll be replaced on a 1:1 basis. They won't , and as for working as a waiter in a restaurant, yeah, I'm sure every bus and truck driver just dreams of that stellar position.
There is no advantage to the public transport end user to have self driving vehicles that replace a driver (you think the fares will be lower once there are no alternatives? Think again) The ONLY advantage is to companies who can save the money on wages yet the push this concept as if they're advancing the cutting edge of tech rather than just carrying out more backhanded cost cutting.
People don't want to share the cars they've paid good $$$$ for with complete strangers unless there's a very tempting cash advantage. Something the tech evangelists in their silicon valley castles tend to forget.
Airports already have shuttle buses and people movers which are far quicker. And if a route is fixed with a reserved ROI then lay some guiderails and ditch the AI.
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I've worked at a lot of companies in my career and some are fine with you doing a 9-5 so long as you get your work done well and on time. Others such as a certain investment bank I worked at were more interested in appearance than output - if you left at 5 they thought you were slacking even if you did twice as much work as the guy who spent most of the day surfing the web but left at 7pm. Sadly this shallow management mentality ended up with me in front of HR despite me closing more bug tickets than almost everyone else in the team. With that kind of small minded mentality its no wonder they couldn't keep the best for very long and IT was populated by people with little coding talend and no life to speak of who didn't mind spending 12 hours a day at their desk.
Meltdowns are almost always a combination of bad reactor design + human error. Both of these can be mitigated.
People seem to conveniently forget that france has generated > 50% of its grid electricity from nuclear for over 50 years without a single major incident.
You need to get help. Your insecurities will probably get someone killed one day. If you want to play with weapons so badly join the fucking military.
Yeah, but OS/X has its own issues - OS/X specific system APIs in Objective-C? Ugh. Proprietary graphics and sound subsystems (X support now hived off to an OSS team so who knows how long that will last) , uppercase/lowercase issues with filenames, and a number of other things. I'm not saying OS/X is bad, its just not the perfect Unix enviroment either.
Unless you're an arsonist.
"I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on"
Not that your a paranoid nutjob or anything. What are you expecting, a home invasion by Chuck Norris?
Ok, no sane person has ever complained. PC lefty councils don't fall into that category.
You know what a daemon process is? No one has ever complained about that nomenclauture not being grown up enough have they?
If you're going to comment on something at least get a clue first.
Yeah, because lots of elderly people will be working with high voltage USB. As for that 10%, its not even close to that high and electrical cables already so I guess they won't be working as electricians.
"Using color as the sole means of communicating critical information is stupid, at best."
What, you mean like traffic lights and railway signals?
Idiot.
"the "one plug for everything" trend that began with USB Type C is a step in the wrong direction."
I disagree. I'm utterly fed up with multiple different types of USB plug, some of them very similar making it an utter pain finding a cable with the correct connectors on both ends. There is zero reason to have all these - its not for space reasons like RS232 had its 9 pin plug since even the largest USB connector is pretty small.
"you end up with a situation where you simply do not know if a cable or port can do what you need it to do."
In 99% of cases you simply need to connect 2 devices, its not complex. If there is a max voltage/current issue then colour code the cables, but DONT create yet another sphagetti soup of connectors.
... and immediatelly went into full riverdance knee-jerk mode clearly without even having a clue about what nuclear fusion is. The worrying thing is that people like you have a vote.
It does nothing for the latter. You still need some other method to get rid of the soot.
A small amount of petrol mixed in with the diesel in a CR engine won't actually do it any harm so long as it only happens the once or twice. Its when the fuel is majority petrol that the problems start.
"with a number of SV startups;"
Oooo, startups. Get you! Low wages, long hours and the company goes bust or gets bought out for its IP in a year. Either way you're out of a job. Enjoy!
"but I'm sure you can agree that salary is also not a strong indicator of being able to program "
Ha, you don't know much about real companies do you. :o) Idiots get fired before they get anywhere near a good salary here in the UK and with crap references they go nowhere and end up serving lattes for a living.
"we can use each other as evidence of that."
What evidence? All I see is your narcissist boasting with nothing to back it up. But hey, you can do functional programming, incredible! I was doing that in ML back in 91-93 sonny and it was just as useless then as it is now. Forced stateless recursion and call-by-value really isn't that much use in real world programming unlike the toy stuff you clearly do.
"you would be the one doing this for money."
Yes, because funnily enough adults have financial responsibilities, bills to pay and whats known as "kids" to support. When you meet something known as "a woman" (perhaps you've heard of them) you might even have some yourself.
"Which I believe brings us right back around to you being an asshole"
Actually yanky, its spelt "arsehole" - I don't own a donkey. However I've certainly been talking to one.
"when you start talking about making money off it I lose interest. "
Translation: I'm not good enough to get a job doing it.
Thanks for clearing that up.
"the issue at stake is that your employer seems to hire assholes"
You can call me what you like Mr Unemployable, I'm the one with the well paid dev job. You're just some hobbiest.
"let's not pretend like they're an indicator of whether someone can program. "
Not always, but they are an indicator that the person is interested in computers and has made the effort to learn more about them so the chances are that they can program better than someone who hasn't done a degree.
"You should post where you work so that people know to avoid it."
If they're the sort of people who've learnt some noddy scripting language at home and think they're ready for prime time corporate development on the 24/7 systems written in C++ here they wouldn't get an interview in the first place so you don't need to worry.
"Finances, location, and time are all required to make it through a degree program, and there are plenty of people who lack those things"
I don't know what country you're in, but here in the UK people get a loan. Location? Whats that got to do with it. You have to leave mummies apron strings eventually. Time? Time for what? Does the family need you to run the corner shop?
"Instead of berating these people perhaps you could show a modicum of empathy and understand that others don't have the same opportunities that you did."
I worked hard to get my A levels to get into a uni and I worked for 18 months before I went there to save up extra money for when I was there instead of bumming around in the far east smoking dope. Opportunity had nothing to do with it.
... will usually be the ones without any formal qualifications who picked up [insert trendy language de jour here] on their own and now write cut and paste sphaggetti code because they have no idea of how to structure a program properly and know next to no useful algorithms. Everything they produce is either mickey mouse code or code blocks from a code site glued together lego brick style and hoping it works.
Just FYI - on my CS course I learnt processor and board architecture, networking (TCP down to ethernet frames + routing principles), AI, relational DBs + normalisation, graphics algorithms, formal proofs and CUI design amongst other things.
I suspect like a lot of people who've never done a degree but work with people who have you have a huge chip on your shoulder and to make yourself feel better you pretend degrees are useless. Well they're not which if you were smart enough to actually get one you'd realise.
I started on Slackware back in the 90s, left for a while after going to DeadRat then Suse but came back after getting sick of things Just Not Working with the aformentioned "professional" distros. So I thought what the hell, installed slackware 13.0 on my laptop, everything worked (and I mean everything, even the wifi and printer out the box with minimal configuration) and I've stuck with it since. And now with systemd taking over most other distros I have no plans on changing.
Thumbs up to Patrick, good work, keep it up!
"Here's the part that you just ignore, yes some of those savings will get passed onto end consumers."
Or they'll get pocketed as profit if everyone else does the same.
Wish I had mod points. The cynicism with which Apple disguise their blatant cost cutting and built in obsolescence under the banner of "innovation" is just staggering. Almost as staggering as the number of rich dumb fanboys and other sheeple who actually believe it.
We don't all replace a perfectly working gadget every few years just for shiny shiny!, not just because of the monetary cost but because of the ethics and enviromental costs. So some of us do care that they're built to last.
"While bus drivers will lose their job, new jobs will be created elsewhere, e.g.: When people save money by not owning a car, they will likely spend that money elsewhere, e.g.: eating at restaurants more often."
I love the way people like you handwavingly dismiss the loss of jobs and pretend they'll be replaced on a 1:1 basis. They won't , and as for working as a waiter in a restaurant, yeah, I'm sure every bus and truck driver just dreams of that stellar position.
There is no advantage to the public transport end user to have self driving vehicles that replace a driver (you think the fares will be lower once there are no alternatives? Think again) The ONLY advantage is to companies who can save the money on wages yet the push this concept as if they're advancing the cutting edge of tech rather than just carrying out more backhanded cost cutting.
People don't want to share the cars they've paid good $$$$ for with complete strangers unless there's a very tempting cash advantage. Something the tech evangelists in their silicon valley castles tend to forget.
Airports already have shuttle buses and people movers which are far quicker. And if a route is fixed with a reserved ROI then lay some guiderails and ditch the AI.