And then you will moan about managers and CEOs just getting jobs through their networking skills.
I have only ever once gone for a job where I knew the person from a previous job, and it didn't help at all.
If you employ people through an old boys' network, you're going to end up with a company full of old boys.
I am too busy working to moan about anything. I have fixed enough messed up networks that I have a lot of people who think of me when the network goes sideways...
As to the "old boys" comment, don't knock the old guys. We are usually the ones called in to fix the young guys not planning ahead...
i think what you are implying requires answering another question: would a glowing mosquito be attractive or unattractive to a mosquito of the opposite sex. it is the 'attractiveness' of a trait that determines whether or not it is predominate in a species. attractiveness has little to do with survival fitness.
You do have a point. The Kardashians are proof of that... And Idiocrasy, for that matter.
These days, when I hire a software developer he's usually someone I've known for several years already, or recommended to me by someone else I've known for a long time.
On the other side of this, I have not had a job that I did not get through a friend or colleague in over 10 years. I have not seen the inside of an HR office in longer than that. If it is a hiring requirement, that is a good clue as to how the company works.
Just forget about all those people with advanced degrees waiting tables, or working as tellers in banks. A degree is one metric, and often not a very good one. From the actually article "seeing how the candidate's code is regarded on line" is a much better metric.
I don't know about you, but I'm despising Google more and more with every passing day. I think they are going to be right there with Microsoft if they continue down this path.
Yeah... And now that I think of it, this IRS thing might not be that good an idea either...
If I hit you in the jaw, that is change. But not all change is good, in spite of what software developers want you to think. And fear of being hit in the jaw is not fear of change, it is fear of pain. I can think of more that a few software missteps that were very painful.
Regarding the first part: since when you have to seed for a day, or since when we have space problems with hard disks? Maybe if you got a netbook, tablet or notebook with 64GB SSD or something like that. IMHO if you can stream a video with HD quality you can download a video as fast from The Pirate Bay.
Since download and upload are asymmetrical, you need to seed much longer than you download if you want a decent ratio. As for space... All hard drive eventually fill.
the majority of linux/unix users have never had. netflix has never warmed up to GNU, and thats just fine for me. ill hit TPB, download the latest excretion from hollywood, judge it based on its merits and if i like it, ill buy the blu-ray version. if i dont like it, 'rm' works nicely and if its a star-wars prequil, 'unlink' and a half pound of thermite has so far proven slightly effective.
But I had Prime Streaming, and now I don't... I never had NetFlix... Between the active Linux blocking, and the stupid pop-up ads, I was never much inclined to use them.
Obviously, the divisions don't talk. The idiot in charge of the streaming division aught to ask the guy in charge of AWS if ignoring Linux users is a money making idea...
And they are all telling Linux users to piss off... Even paying Linux users... Hey Idiots! I have money over here! More actually since I didn't spend it on Windows Licenses or anti-virus subscriptions.
The problem is that, according to the story's poster, the change not only affect new pilots, but also all the old previously bought and previously accessible content.
Suddenly, all the part services which you did like and for which you gave money, stops working too.
That is something I still do not understand. How is it that making an unauthorized copy of something without payment is theft, but depriving me of paid for content is not?
But I don't want to. I Liked Amazon prime free streams. I Liked being able to stream "right now" and not have to wait an hour, and seed for a day or so... I Liked not having to see if I had space for the entire season while the seeding was good.
Most of all, I Liked telling fellow Linux users bitching about Netflix, "Just Use Amazon Prime, because they work with Linux." Glad I didn't "buy" anything and actually expect to have access to it later. When will they realize that the reluctance to streaming distribution is that We do not trust you to let us keep using the stuff we have paid for!
And I thought a good definition of "mutually exclusive" was "having no points in common with one another."
"Mutually exclusive" means at most one of them can be true at the same time. For example "the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius" and "it snows" are mutually exclusive, as there's no way that it snows at 30 degrees Celsius. OTOH "the sun is shining" and "the train is delayed" have no points in common, but they are not mutually exclusive because the train may well be delayed while the sun is shining.
Ahhh..... And I thought you were on "mutually exclusive." Perhaps you should go back and look at "can be" in the OP. As in "The reason and the excuse can be mutually exclusive.
I call it garage syndrome... The stuff you have expands to fill your garage, no matter the size. It does not need to be bigger, but programmers can get lazy too. Not to mention fitting in the latest new shiny.
Not US, nor UK, nor most other countries, TOR are not officially blocked, at the ISP level
At least, not yet
Maybe not blocked, but people are being arrested or sued for what others do via their exit node. "Yeah, we know you didn't do it, but it came from your house. Guilty."
Yep... We want all people to be free. Unless we don't like them, then we have to know who they are. But if someone else we don't like does not like them, then THEY NEED TO BE FREE! Being a part of the ruling class would be so much easier if it were not for all these darned peasants...
No way will Google go the full mile and keeping building fiber around the country indefinitely.
Why not? It appears that they are doing it slowly, and cash flowing the build out. It also appears to be making a profit, and at the same time reducing Google's own transit costs... If you are slowly growing and making money, why would you not want to continue?
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And then you will moan about managers and CEOs just getting jobs through their networking skills.
I have only ever once gone for a job where I knew the person from a previous job, and it didn't help at all.
If you employ people through an old boys' network, you're going to end up with a company full of old boys.
I am too busy working to moan about anything. I have fixed enough messed up networks that I have a lot of people who think of me when the network goes sideways...
As to the "old boys" comment, don't knock the old guys. We are usually the ones called in to fix the young guys not planning ahead...
i think what you are implying requires answering another question: would a glowing mosquito be attractive or unattractive to a mosquito of the opposite sex. it is the 'attractiveness' of a trait that determines whether or not it is predominate in a species. attractiveness has little to do with survival fitness.
You do have a point. The Kardashians are proof of that... And Idiocrasy, for that matter.
When a company gets to the size where covering your ass is more important than success, it is time to start looking for a new job.
These days, when I hire a software developer he's usually someone I've known for several years already, or recommended to me by someone else I've known for a long time.
On the other side of this, I have not had a job that I did not get through a friend or colleague in over 10 years. I have not seen the inside of an HR office in longer than that. If it is a hiring requirement, that is a good clue as to how the company works.
Just forget about all those people with advanced degrees waiting tables, or working as tellers in banks. A degree is one metric, and often not a very good one. From the actually article "seeing how the candidate's code is regarded on line" is a much better metric.
I don't know about you, but I'm despising Google more and more with every passing day. I think they are going to be right there with Microsoft if they continue down this path.
Yeah... And now that I think of it, this IRS thing might not be that good an idea either...
I think you may be a little late to this party.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
If this is your definition of change, you can shove it up your ass.
Yeah... If he believes that, when is he putting the web cam in his shower?
If I hit you in the jaw, that is change. But not all change is good, in spite of what software developers want you to think. And fear of being hit in the jaw is not fear of change, it is fear of pain. I can think of more that a few software missteps that were very painful.
Regarding the first part: since when you have to seed for a day, or since when we have space problems with hard disks? Maybe if you got a netbook, tablet or notebook with 64GB SSD or something like that. IMHO if you can stream a video with HD quality you can download a video as fast from The Pirate Bay.
Since download and upload are asymmetrical, you need to seed much longer than you download if you want a decent ratio. As for space... All hard drive eventually fill.
the majority of linux/unix users have never had. netflix has never warmed up to GNU, and thats just fine for me. ill hit TPB, download the latest excretion from hollywood, judge it based on its merits and if i like it, ill buy the blu-ray version. if i dont like it, 'rm' works nicely and if its a star-wars prequil, 'unlink' and a half pound of thermite has so far proven slightly effective.
But I had Prime Streaming, and now I don't... I never had NetFlix... Between the active Linux blocking, and the stupid pop-up ads, I was never much inclined to use them.
Obviously, the divisions don't talk. The idiot in charge of the streaming division aught to ask the guy in charge of AWS if ignoring Linux users is a money making idea...
And they are all telling Linux users to piss off... Even paying Linux users... Hey Idiots! I have money over here! More actually since I didn't spend it on Windows Licenses or anti-virus subscriptions.
The problem is that, according to the story's poster, the change not only affect new pilots, but also all the old previously bought and previously accessible content. Suddenly, all the part services which you did like and for which you gave money, stops working too.
That is something I still do not understand. How is it that making an unauthorized copy of something without payment is theft, but depriving me of paid for content is not?
But I don't want to. I Liked Amazon prime free streams. I Liked being able to stream "right now" and not have to wait an hour, and seed for a day or so... I Liked not having to see if I had space for the entire season while the seeding was good.
Most of all, I Liked telling fellow Linux users bitching about Netflix, "Just Use Amazon Prime, because they work with Linux." Glad I didn't "buy" anything and actually expect to have access to it later. When will they realize that the reluctance to streaming distribution is that We do not trust you to let us keep using the stuff we have paid for!
"Mutually exclusive" means at most one of them can be true at the same time. For example "the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius" and "it snows" are mutually exclusive, as there's no way that it snows at 30 degrees Celsius. OTOH "the sun is shining" and "the train is delayed" have no points in common, but they are not mutually exclusive because the train may well be delayed while the sun is shining.
Ahhh..... And I thought you were on "mutually exclusive." Perhaps you should go back and look at "can be" in the OP. As in "The reason and the excuse can be mutually exclusive.
I call it garage syndrome... The stuff you have expands to fill your garage, no matter the size. It does not need to be bigger, but programmers can get lazy too. Not to mention fitting in the latest new shiny.
Two problems here.
(1) The article has nothing to do with Fukushima or TEPCO. It's about someone who sent anonymous death threats.
While the rest of your comments may or may not be true; The reason and the excuse can be mutually exclusive.
You know, "mutually exclusive" is a really silly, if not outright wrong, term there. "Distinct" would be a better choice.
Now begone lest I refer thee to Strunk & White!
And I thought a good definition of "mutually exclusive" was "having no points in common with one another."
"Yeah, we know you didn't do it, but it came from your house. Guilty."
How do they know they didn't do it?
In one well known case, because the person accused was actually dead at the time. The estate was sued.
Two problems here.
(1) The article has nothing to do with Fukushima or TEPCO. It's about someone who sent anonymous death threats.
While the rest of your comments may or may not be true; The reason and the excuse can be mutually exclusive.
Yes, so is the US, UK and every other country.
Not US, nor UK, nor most other countries, TOR are not officially blocked, at the ISP level
At least, not yet
Maybe not blocked, but people are being arrested or sued for what others do via their exit node. "Yeah, we know you didn't do it, but it came from your house. Guilty."
Yep... We want all people to be free. Unless we don't like them, then we have to know who they are. But if someone else we don't like does not like them, then THEY NEED TO BE FREE! Being a part of the ruling class would be so much easier if it were not for all these darned peasants...
No way will Google go the full mile and keeping building fiber around the country indefinitely.
Why not? It appears that they are doing it slowly, and cash flowing the build out. It also appears to be making a profit, and at the same time reducing Google's own transit costs... If you are slowly growing and making money, why would you not want to continue?
Bigger crabs and lobster, and someone thinks this is a bad thing? I am going outside to rev my SUV for a while...
Actually, I thought someone wrote a bitcoin mining routine in some FaceBook game or something. Another "alternate revenue stream."
Other than Chromebooks can run full Linux. So it will never be totally worthless.