As someone who has been on the programmer hiring side for a small company (about 600 employees), I totally agree about H.R. being useless. But testing our applicants for the knowledge we needed (it was C++ at the time) was fairly easy. I created a simple 12-question questionnaire to assess their C++ knowledge. It became readily apparent who was completely useless versus who knew their stuff.
At the end of the process, there was one applicant who stood head and shoulders above the rest. In the two years he spent with us (he left for higher pay, and told me years later that he had regretted leaving), he proved himself to be a very competent programmer and a very likable person.
The EULA basically only allows for you to host your own servers, or your own instanced servers from a cloud provider, unless you're a platform partner.
That Improbable agreed to those terms in the first place shows very bad judgment, and shows that Unity indeed is the villain in this story. That Improbable would partner with another villain (Epic Games) shows additional bad judgment. They're really just substituting one abuser for another.
Sorry, I posted that too close to bedtime to remember which court was being discussed. Yes, the Federal Circuit judges should all be impeached as negligent.
Every single judge in the ninth circuit that votes to ignore the Supreme Court needs to be impeached and removed from office. I would also be favorable to giving some of them jail time.
Shouldn't they be raising Internet rates instead, since Internet service is needed by cord-cutters too?
If they're smart, then they know that's a problematic gamble. There are several companies planing to put satellites in low earth orbit to provide Internet access. By raising Internet rates now, the major ISP's would be setting into motion the wholesale slaughter of their businesses when these satellites become operational.
Nvidia is being sued for not being fortune tellers?
NVidia is being sued for blatantly lying to investors. They knew that their massive revenue increases were due to crypto miners, so it's an absolute no-brainer that the implosion of crypto-mining was going to cause a corresponding drop in revenues. However, NVidia's rosy statements to investors were straight out lies, and the executives making those statements knew they were lying.
Are you serious? Stupid shit like this is EASILY preventable, but stupid people doing stupid things MAKE this happen. Normally, I wouldn't be promoting blaming the victims. But this isn't a case of the newpapers being victims of outsiders, despite outsiders having written the virus. This is a case of the newspapers doing it to themselves.
After all these years, there is NO REASON for business operations getting viruses. If they are still getting viruses on their business computers, it is their own fault. I have ZERO sympathy for them. They knew the risks, and they ignored them. It's like jumping off a tall cliff, ignoring warnings of dire consequences, then complaining when they're in traction. It's their own damn fault.
Browser development is way out of the realm of open source hackers.
That is very amusing, considering that Blink, the rendering engine in Chromium, is descended from Webkit, which is descended from KHTML, which is the rendering engine created by Open Source hackers for KDE's Konqueror Web browser.
Blink is Open Source, so a skilled Open Source hacker could have a working Web browser running in a weekend if he really wanted to. Its rendering accuracy would rival Chrome and Firefox right out of the gate, so said hacker's job would be the usability of the Web browser rather than the nuts and bolts of getting pages to render right.
One common renderer usable by anyone for anything is what we Web developers have been clamoring for in the last twenty five years.
I write and maintain credit card processing software (among other things). The card processing companies charge a percentage of the purchase price as a fee to process the card transaction. Many government entities are forbidden by law from using taxpayer money to cover those fees, so they are passed on to the card holder. The government offices I know don't keep a penny of the fee, as it all goes to the processor.
If you don't want to pay for a subscription then don't.
You seem to think that you will have a choice within the Microsoft prison. Microsoft apologists are like lobsters in a cooking tank who think they can just move to another tank when the water gets too hot.
...theoretical physics and have had a very successful career for over 20 years.
You are probably the type of person who loves what he does, is capable of independent research to solve problems, and whose University grades have no bearing on his ability to do his job.
You could probably have lived life more, studied less, gotten lower grades, and still be perfectly able to do your job.
In short, you are probably just the person the article author had in mind to prove that University grades are meaningless beyond the hiring process.
They've only committed to idling them. And because of contracts with the UAW, I don't think GM can actually close those plants. At least not until they negotiate a new contract next year.
I might be wrong, but that seems to be a very tenuous difference. GM idles the plants, workers have nothing to do, workers make no money, workers leave to find another job, no more workers, shut down and sell the plant.
Trump's admin is pushing through a challenge to the ACA that, if Trump gets another term, will likely strike the law down.
And that would be one of the few reasons I would be happy for Trump to have another term. Once the Public Option was thrown out, the entire ACA should have been thrown out with it. It was bad law to begin with, but then it became absolutely useless. The best thing the Republicans did with their power was to mercifully gut the Individual Mandate (the single worst part of what remained of the ACA). Of course, they were responsible for making it absolutely useless to begin with, but at least they carried through.
If anything it's SpaceX that should be concerned that their potential subscriber base is dwindling, at least in the US.
I don't think you understand that dearth of broadband availability in the U.S. I'd estimate that at least half of the U.S. (by population) has either no broadband at all, or has broadband of little utility. Even if Starlink were limited to the U.S., the potential market is HUGE.
You could have stopped at Oracle DBA, as nothing past this point could possibly be worse. Managing Oracle is a nightmare that is unsurpassed in modern computing, not even by Windows.
Ads are the reason I stopped listening to the radio over twenty years ago, and stopped watching broadcast TV about eight years ago. The ad-supported model always turns abusive, so I completely agree with your sentiment: do not accept ads.
Plus, he's lit up like he just drank a couple of quarts of espresso.
That made me laugh because I had the same impression, but hadn't actually put my finger on it. Scotty is always fun to watch, even though he doesn't generally go into great detail. nonetheless, he is informative enough and entertaining to boot. He has a personality that translates to the screen very well.
[Microsoft has] in my opinion, over the last couple of years, made strides in the right direction of friendship with the broader community of open source development ecosystem.
You have been successfully hoodwinked. Microsoft has no friends. Never has. Never will. If Microsoft does anything that benefits someone else, it's just to set a trap that will be sprung at the appropriate time.
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Another reason to NEVER talk to the FBI...
This is where you should have stopped.
As someone who has been on the programmer hiring side for a small company (about 600 employees), I totally agree about H.R. being useless. But testing our applicants for the knowledge we needed (it was C++ at the time) was fairly easy. I created a simple 12-question questionnaire to assess their C++ knowledge. It became readily apparent who was completely useless versus who knew their stuff.
At the end of the process, there was one applicant who stood head and shoulders above the rest. In the two years he spent with us (he left for higher pay, and told me years later that he had regretted leaving), he proved himself to be a very competent programmer and a very likable person.
How is this different than a physical key you've been ordered to surrender?
It's not, if the order comes from a judge through due process.
Police are not judges, and a police demand is not due process.
The EULA basically only allows for you to host your own servers, or your own instanced servers from a cloud provider, unless you're a platform partner.
That Improbable agreed to those terms in the first place shows very bad judgment, and shows that Unity indeed is the villain in this story. That Improbable would partner with another villain (Epic Games) shows additional bad judgment. They're really just substituting one abuser for another.
Sorry, I posted that too close to bedtime to remember which court was being discussed. Yes, the Federal Circuit judges should all be impeached as negligent.
Every single judge in the ninth circuit that votes to ignore the Supreme Court needs to be impeached and removed from office. I would also be favorable to giving some of them jail time.
Shouldn't they be raising Internet rates instead, since Internet service is needed by cord-cutters too?
If they're smart, then they know that's a problematic gamble. There are several companies planing to put satellites in low earth orbit to provide Internet access. By raising Internet rates now, the major ISP's would be setting into motion the wholesale slaughter of their businesses when these satellites become operational.
Nvidia is being sued for not being fortune tellers?
NVidia is being sued for blatantly lying to investors. They knew that their massive revenue increases were due to crypto miners, so it's an absolute no-brainer that the implosion of crypto-mining was going to cause a corresponding drop in revenues. However, NVidia's rosy statements to investors were straight out lies, and the executives making those statements knew they were lying.
If there's no penalty for a screw-up of this magnitude, then what's the incentive to keep management from rolling the dice again?
There could be a law that creates a Nuclear Court, which guarantees that Nuclear management will forego the dice and just screw us over intentionally.
...and apparently nothing can stop it?
Are you serious? Stupid shit like this is EASILY preventable, but stupid people doing stupid things MAKE this happen. Normally, I wouldn't be promoting blaming the victims. But this isn't a case of the newpapers being victims of outsiders, despite outsiders having written the virus. This is a case of the newspapers doing it to themselves.
After all these years, there is NO REASON for business operations getting viruses. If they are still getting viruses on their business computers, it is their own fault. I have ZERO sympathy for them. They knew the risks, and they ignored them. It's like jumping off a tall cliff, ignoring warnings of dire consequences, then complaining when they're in traction. It's their own damn fault.
Browser development is way out of the realm of open source hackers.
That is very amusing, considering that Blink, the rendering engine in Chromium, is descended from Webkit, which is descended from KHTML, which is the rendering engine created by Open Source hackers for KDE's Konqueror Web browser.
Blink is Open Source, so a skilled Open Source hacker could have a working Web browser running in a weekend if he really wanted to. Its rendering accuracy would rival Chrome and Firefox right out of the gate, so said hacker's job would be the usability of the Web browser rather than the nuts and bolts of getting pages to render right.
One common renderer usable by anyone for anything is what we Web developers have been clamoring for in the last twenty five years.
This "delete Windows to fix problem" trope is old, tired, and predictable as hell on Slashdot.
It's good advice just never goes stale; like, "don't drive drunk," or "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
That's one more reason to avoid using Microsoft's browser.
That's one more reason to avoid using Microsoft's operating system, too.
They just did not care as long dollars swamped in.
Don't be too hard on the cheaters. They're just trying to drain the swamp.
I write and maintain credit card processing software (among other things). The card processing companies charge a percentage of the purchase price as a fee to process the card transaction. Many government entities are forbidden by law from using taxpayer money to cover those fees, so they are passed on to the card holder. The government offices I know don't keep a penny of the fee, as it all goes to the processor.
If you don't want to pay for a subscription then don't.
You seem to think that you will have a choice within the Microsoft prison. Microsoft apologists are like lobsters in a cooking tank who think they can just move to another tank when the water gets too hot.
...theoretical physics and have had a very successful career for over 20 years.
You are probably the type of person who loves what he does, is capable of independent research to solve problems, and whose University grades have no bearing on his ability to do his job.
You could probably have lived life more, studied less, gotten lower grades, and still be perfectly able to do your job.
In short, you are probably just the person the article author had in mind to prove that University grades are meaningless beyond the hiring process.
They've only committed to idling them. And because of contracts with the UAW, I don't think GM can actually close those plants. At least not until they negotiate a new contract next year.
I might be wrong, but that seems to be a very tenuous difference. GM idles the plants, workers have nothing to do, workers make no money, workers leave to find another job, no more workers, shut down and sell the plant.
Trump's admin is pushing through a challenge to the ACA that, if Trump gets another term, will likely strike the law down.
And that would be one of the few reasons I would be happy for Trump to have another term. Once the Public Option was thrown out, the entire ACA should have been thrown out with it. It was bad law to begin with, but then it became absolutely useless. The best thing the Republicans did with their power was to mercifully gut the Individual Mandate (the single worst part of what remained of the ACA). Of course, they were responsible for making it absolutely useless to begin with, but at least they carried through.
I haven't had to pay anything (except standard mobile contract fees)
That's like saying, "I haven't had to pay anything for my house (except standard mortgage payments)."
If anything it's SpaceX that should be concerned that their potential subscriber base is dwindling, at least in the US.
I don't think you understand that dearth of broadband availability in the U.S. I'd estimate that at least half of the U.S. (by population) has either no broadband at all, or has broadband of little utility. Even if Starlink were limited to the U.S., the potential market is HUGE.
Being an Oracle DBA on VM/CMS.
You could have stopped at Oracle DBA, as nothing past this point could possibly be worse. Managing Oracle is a nightmare that is unsurpassed in modern computing, not even by Windows.
Do not accept ads.
Ads are the reason I stopped listening to the radio over twenty years ago, and stopped watching broadcast TV about eight years ago. The ad-supported model always turns abusive, so I completely agree with your sentiment: do not accept ads.
Plus, he's lit up like he just drank a couple of quarts of espresso.
That made me laugh because I had the same impression, but hadn't actually put my finger on it. Scotty is always fun to watch, even though he doesn't generally go into great detail. nonetheless, he is informative enough and entertaining to boot. He has a personality that translates to the screen very well.
[Microsoft has] in my opinion, over the last couple of years, made strides in the right direction of friendship with the broader community of open source development ecosystem.
You have been successfully hoodwinked. Microsoft has no friends. Never has. Never will. If Microsoft does anything that benefits someone else, it's just to set a trap that will be sprung at the appropriate time.