I've seen amateur battery conversions on a couple vehicles. The results look like deathtraps to me.
The conversions are as good as the people doing it. Yes, some folks will trust their lives to duct tape and fishing line, and others will do a better job then the pros... It is not about DIY, but about who the Y is.
It is not about scope, or features, or development. It is all about who has the most things to install. Unless it runs Docker apps, (Which will be hard if it does not keep up with the feature creep) it is already starting way behind.
But what does all that have to do with my main points, which is that a sudden catastrophic change in your health can take it all away, and that becomes more and more likely as you age, and that employers can do the math?
Reminds me of a meeting with a client discussing business continuity. I was in a sling with a broken arm 6 weeks after a motorcycle wreck. Shit happens. Some people plan for it. Some believe it will never happen to them. I do have better insurance than I did at 20...
Yeah, you may think that's the reason companies hire younger folks, but it's not. I hire in IT and more often than not take the young (cheap) people.
I see this often. Which is why none of the jobs I have had in the last 10 years had anything to do with HR until after I was already "hired." I do all my job changes via contacts and word of mouth.
Been there and did that, and hated it. I like IT. I do not like running a business, or accounting, and sales is a fate worse than death. So I "hire" a body shop to do all the business management and sales stuff, and I get to play with the toys. Business managers never get to play with the toys.
I am an old guy who has not stayed at any one company for a long time... And I am in demand. Consulting with a lot of experience is a blast! The key is having needed skills that make you worth it.
The allure of the "high" from "getting into the zone" and doing awesome stuff in marathon coding sessions isn't as attractive as it used to be anyway.
On the other hand, I am never called in for marathon sessions. As a consultant, I am called in when it all has hit the fan. And with my experience, I can usually asses it quickly and get things on track quickly as well. So it is focused, problem solving work. And the payoff is both in money and in solving in a day problems that have stumped a team for weeks or months. (Or sometimes years)
I agree, eventually SSDs will become cheap enough that it won't be worth it to manufacture spinning hard-drives anymore.
Capacity per dollar. Home use, 2TB is fine. But in business, arrays of 50TB are common, and size will only grow. Eventually spinning rust drives will become the near-line storage we used to have when tape and laser disks actually had large capacities.
So... I am using Smasung SSDs as a mirrored ZIL cache for a nas4free array hosting VMware servers and Horizon View desktops. In other words, mostly continuous writes 24/7. And yet I have one drive that failed (and was warranted) at just past one year, and the other drive is over 2 years old with no issues. Yeah, yeah, anecdotal, but a lot of enterprises are finding modern SSDs to outlast some spinning rust.
That said, the rest of the storage array is spinning rust for cost reasons. When you are talking about 15TB or more with parity, SSD is a little crippling to the wallet.
If you want to create a legitimate competitor to Facebook, Google or just about any other tech company, it's going to take a serious amount of hardware and infrastructure, and that ain't free..
But it also does not have to be yours... Look at the massive amount of data bit torrent moves around by everyone gives a little of what they have. If you make a thick app that runs all the time, you have some amazing processing power and bandwidth. And a peer 2 peer, decentralized Facebook has some serious advantages.
Of course, there are lots of jobs at $45k and a lot less at $60k. I know a lot of people with degrees working at Starbucks, or as bank tellers. I know very few good (key word here is good) coders not working in their fields. I even know some people that have begun hiding their degree to get more chances at work.
We are talking IT here. What I do changes drastically every 2 years. Sometimes faster than that. Yet if you start on the bleeding edge you learn as it develops.
Well, of the 4 people I know with student debt, two are well over $100k. But mostly from the "screaming headlines." http://www.forbes.com/sites/sp... Of course if averages is $40k and many only owe $25k, that means there are some on the other side too...
As someone 20 years out (and more) I can tell you that a degree is NOT required, and that a balanced lifestyle does not need management. (In many cases, management makes having a life outside of work harder or impossible.)
We'll end up with more brainless "web developers" who will be able to copy and paste code snippets in Javascript and Python without having any clue about how anything else actually works.
Well, that replaces outsourcing. Now what do we do for coders?
Well, a slight decrease in starting pay vs not having $100k in student loans sounds a bit better. And 10 years out it will be about ability, not what degree you have.
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I've seen amateur battery conversions on a couple vehicles. The results look like deathtraps to me.
The conversions are as good as the people doing it. Yes, some folks will trust their lives to duct tape and fishing line, and others will do a better job then the pros... It is not about DIY, but about who the Y is.
I wish there was a way to make documentation sexy.
Inappropriate pictures?
It is not about scope, or features, or development. It is all about who has the most things to install. Unless it runs Docker apps, (Which will be hard if it does not keep up with the feature creep) it is already starting way behind.
Oh, come on... IT has LOTS of opportunity to really screw things up. Do so a few times and you become a cautious old man. :)
Yikes. Proof that Ageism goes both ways.
Yeah, but the old guys have many years more anecdotal evidence showing they are right. :)
Nice idea... I wish he could teach it to some of the politicians up there.
But what does all that have to do with my main points, which is that a sudden catastrophic change in your health can take it all away, and that becomes more and more likely as you age, and that employers can do the math?
Reminds me of a meeting with a client discussing business continuity. I was in a sling with a broken arm 6 weeks after a motorcycle wreck. Shit happens. Some people plan for it. Some believe it will never happen to them. I do have better insurance than I did at 20...
Yeah, you may think that's the reason companies hire younger folks, but it's not. I hire in IT and more often than not take the young (cheap) people.
I see this often. Which is why none of the jobs I have had in the last 10 years had anything to do with HR until after I was already "hired." I do all my job changes via contacts and word of mouth.
Been there and did that, and hated it. I like IT. I do not like running a business, or accounting, and sales is a fate worse than death. So I "hire" a body shop to do all the business management and sales stuff, and I get to play with the toys. Business managers never get to play with the toys.
I am an old guy who has not stayed at any one company for a long time... And I am in demand. Consulting with a lot of experience is a blast! The key is having needed skills that make you worth it.
The allure of the "high" from "getting into the zone" and doing awesome stuff in marathon coding sessions isn't as attractive as it used to be anyway.
On the other hand, I am never called in for marathon sessions. As a consultant, I am called in when it all has hit the fan. And with my experience, I can usually asses it quickly and get things on track quickly as well. So it is focused, problem solving work. And the payoff is both in money and in solving in a day problems that have stumped a team for weeks or months. (Or sometimes years)
Doesn't matter. It is ten years out. This prediction won't even be on Archive.org anymore by that time...
They just ask for 15 years of experience in R&R regardless....and get it (per claims).
That's ok. They are "Billable" years.
This would make me RULE Deathmatch in a FPS! Yeah!
Only a little evil...
I agree, eventually SSDs will become cheap enough that it won't be worth it to manufacture spinning hard-drives anymore.
Capacity per dollar. Home use, 2TB is fine. But in business, arrays of 50TB are common, and size will only grow. Eventually spinning rust drives will become the near-line storage we used to have when tape and laser disks actually had large capacities.
So... I am using Smasung SSDs as a mirrored ZIL cache for a nas4free array hosting VMware servers and Horizon View desktops. In other words, mostly continuous writes 24/7. And yet I have one drive that failed (and was warranted) at just past one year, and the other drive is over 2 years old with no issues. Yeah, yeah, anecdotal, but a lot of enterprises are finding modern SSDs to outlast some spinning rust.
That said, the rest of the storage array is spinning rust for cost reasons. When you are talking about 15TB or more with parity, SSD is a little crippling to the wallet.
If you want to create a legitimate competitor to Facebook, Google or just about any other tech company, it's going to take a serious amount of hardware and infrastructure, and that ain't free..
But it also does not have to be yours... Look at the massive amount of data bit torrent moves around by everyone gives a little of what they have. If you make a thick app that runs all the time, you have some amazing processing power and bandwidth. And a peer 2 peer, decentralized Facebook has some serious advantages.
Sorry, but it has to be said... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not really. Have you seen Youtube? People love to hurt themselves as long as they have an audience. Now hold my beer and watch this...
Of course, there are lots of jobs at $45k and a lot less at $60k. I know a lot of people with degrees working at Starbucks, or as bank tellers. I know very few good (key word here is good) coders not working in their fields. I even know some people that have begun hiding their degree to get more chances at work.
So be ready to change careers every 5 years.
We are talking IT here. What I do changes drastically every 2 years. Sometimes faster than that. Yet if you start on the bleeding edge you learn as it develops.
Well, of the 4 people I know with student debt, two are well over $100k. But mostly from the "screaming headlines." http://www.forbes.com/sites/sp... Of course if averages is $40k and many only owe $25k, that means there are some on the other side too...
As someone 20 years out (and more) I can tell you that a degree is NOT required, and that a balanced lifestyle does not need management. (In many cases, management makes having a life outside of work harder or impossible.)
We'll end up with more brainless "web developers" who will be able to copy and paste code snippets in Javascript and Python without having any clue about how anything else actually works.
Well, that replaces outsourcing. Now what do we do for coders?
Well, a slight decrease in starting pay vs not having $100k in student loans sounds a bit better. And 10 years out it will be about ability, not what degree you have.