Uhhhh, not sure which Walmart or Target you shop at, but they're definitely there, BestBuy too. In fact, the Walmart here was literally sold out of Echo devices. As for the number sold, I know a lot of people with these things. The issue for me as a developer is that monetizing these things is far easier said than done. There's no pay-to-play app store and subscriptions require an off device setup. That's a lot of friction to overcome to cover your dev costs.
I don't know, I've been to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York over the last 6 months and the number of native Chinese seems to growing, not shrinking. I'm pretty sure they didn't come to the US to find worse paying jobs.
The gist of all this is that these companies were intending to monetize the services and / or hosting. Instead, AWS is monetizing the services and hosting. So, in effect, AWS is eating these companies lunches. I see how this is bad news for the companies developing these products, but it's the natural order of things. The open source Pandora's box has been opened, there's no stuffing the lid back on it now. First hardware got commoditized, then software got commoditized, and now services are getting commoditized. They need to find a way to move up the value chain (eg. consulting / education / customizations), or their air supply will eventually run out.
"Virtual coffee breaks, where employees talk about their lives outside GitLab, are built into everyone's schedules." that's interesting stuff, but the linked article doesn't expand on it at all, so I found this write up on Quartz in case anyone is interested. Seems like it would be a bit awkward at first, but I don't hate the concept, but it seems awkward, part of the coffee break is getting away from your desk.
Exactly, anytime I see " struggling to find qualified engineers", there's always the missing "... at the wage we're offering" part missing to the statement. If you're struggling to find a set number of qualified engineers, it's because the pay is too low, end of story. If you're sitting at the right of the demand curve looking for large numbers of workers at low wages and not finding equilibrium in the labor market, then you have 2 choices: hire fewer workers or increase wages, that's why it's called the LAW of supply and demand. I will guarantee a tsunami of qualified applicants if the wage is bumped to $1,000,000 / year, I will also guarantee a dearth of qualified applicants at $1 / year, the solution lies somewhere in the middle, but certainly higher than the current "offering".
Except Trump knows cell phones, nobody knows cell phones like him, let me tell you, you know, he has a cell phone. Has had one right from the start of phones. He knows what it takes to build one, and he's not buying it. We can create good, no great, jobs, let me tell you, for American people. It's people who make a difference, little people, like the people who build things. These are going to be the best, and Trump knows best better than anyone, cell phones the world has ever seen, and American's are going to build them, and export them to China, and those tiny Canadians. We're going to be the hugest cell phoning creating country the world has ever seen, and we're going to have it now. It's simple, mark his words, we... will... build... them, and it's going to be great, and the phones are going to be great. The best the world has ever seen. He knows cell phones, not like that crooked Hillary, has anybody see those mail servers, but we're going to build those cell phones. The fake news will tell you cell phones can't be done, but Trump knows for a fact, he's seen it, that they are built here, and they're great, let me tell you.
I knew I wasn't the only guy thinking of this! Biggest problem I see is something severs the cable or an container integrity breach. Unlike air, everything in that container is lost if water gets in.
I'll take a UNIX kernel option too instead of Windows + Registry. In other words Windows Subsystem for UNIX. To me, Linux Subsystem for Windows is like glueing McLaren parts onto a Ford Fiesta and calling the result a sports car. I'd much rather bolt some Ford Fiesta parts onto a McLaren and take that to the races.
There are an awful lot of lower tier ex-programmers and ex-program managers who shifted to selling Agile panacea and Scrum Master certificates. It's a guaranteed they'll fight like hell when the charade is exposed and their jobs / billings are under threat. It's all a scam as soon as someone who's not a core developer gets brought into the mix. It's an even bigger scam if points get corrupted into something billable. Estimation is an art, not a science, Agile gives it an air of science with nice round numbers that can be multiplied by dollar amounts and plugged into Excel. We may be able to fix a lot of what is wrong with Agile by replacing the numbers with emoji, otherwise it's just a repackaging of the same old project management accounting that has existed forever.
Wish I had mod points, your point is exactly right.
Well yeah, no shit. Just like there are more $25,000/year jobs in Palo Alto than people to fill them. You'd be luck to be able to rent a basement shoebox studio on $25,000 a year in Palo Alto.
It's the most basic hour 1 of day 1 of intro to economics supply and demand situation. Not able to fill an opening? Guess what, you're to the right on the supply curve where supply (jobs) exceeds demand (labor). There is one of 2 solutions, you either raise the wage offered and move back towards equilibrium, or you hope people get demoralized, then pray supply curve rises to equilibrium at the price you want.
People don't want low pay, part time work? Have you tried offering them above market pay, full time work? Seems to be working for Google and Facebook where they have an endless firehose of applicants.
WTF? It's not April 1. The Onion? Nope, the Wash Post. Kinda hoping I never have to code review her work because that's some level 5 batshit crazy. First, it's 240,000 miles from Earth. You're not dropping anything from 30+ Earths away. Second, there's a thin layer of "stuff" around earth that likes to vaporize or at least disintegrate stuff from space that wants to hit the earth. However, let's not let science get in the way of misinformation. I'd keep going but I have to head down to Costco for my law class.
Java's a language based on old programming paradigms and it's core purpose for existing (WORA) is gone as a result of Linux owning the datacenter and containerization. I'm relatively well connected to the startup community and I know of exactly zero startups greenfielding backend work on Java out of the ~30 I have insight into. The primary use cases keeping Java popular are Android and AWS. Android is rapidly transitioning to Kotlin and Java running on AWS is actively being replaced by Node and Python. Java will stick around in legacy functions, much like COBOL, so it's not going away, but new development on Java is almost certainly going to continue to decline.
Agreed, created an account there just to camp on my username. I'm not migrating from GitHub *yet*, but I will jump at the first mention of "migrating to windows".
I was coming to say this, never had a problem with these, they were really excellent and well locked down little routers. However, they fact they're discontinued is a big red flag, I can't recommend them without ongoing support.
The FAANGs hire a tiny fraction of a percent of the people who apply there. There's no shortage of skilled people. There is may be a shortage of people who can pass their filters and interviews, but shortage of CS grads? No, absolutely not. If the FAANGs hired everybody who applied and still needed more people, then it would be a shortage. When you can afford to be so selective as to turn away 99.9% of the people who apply to your company, then you're facing anything but a shortage. Now, if you're looking for a senior engineer under 30 with 20 years experience in machine learning, 3 published works, and at least 4 patents to their name, you're going to pay through the nose. Complaining there's a shortage of Bugatti Veyrons available to buy for your car pool service is pretty disingenuous when there is a virtually unlimited supply of Chrysler Minivans that could absolutely do the job that needs to be done.
The video in the article straightens that all out. TLDR; the body is tiny and the blades are huge, plus they spin really f-ing fast. The big unanswered question to me is, who's gonna pick it up if it falls on it's side!?! Not to knock the work of 2 dozen PhDs who spent 4 years on this, but wouldn't it be "better" to have it dock on the rover where it could recharge (and save the weight of it's own panels) and get safely locked in place, plus maybe cleaned?
I know I'm pedantic here, but the near zero Kelvin temps apply to interstellar space, within solar space it's significantly warmer (>150 Kelvin), but you're still going to need to pack a jacket.
I might actually consider a Windows shell that runs on Ubuntu, but an Ubuntu shell running on Windows, yeah, no thanks. The broken bits are still non-optional.
It's not high taxes, taxes in California are almost as high. The difference is that instead of $120K CDN salary, end of story, in Toronto, I can make a $200K USD salary, and $150K USD in RSUs. It's hard to argue with $440K CDN vs $120K CDN. The other problem is companies in Canada are mostly "tech" in name only, they don't act like tech companies (old tech stacks, MS and Java) and consider engineers as "cost centers" rather than "core" to the company mission. When the wages and attitude catch up, I suggest trimming some micro-management fat, the drainage will slow. I don't think it will ever reverse without a tech enlightenment at the corporate level and an explosion in wages. Until then, Canada get's the Trump tech refuges who would much rather be in the US earning solid salaries rather than the same amount my dad earned in 1985 when houses cost $200K CAD.
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Uhhhh, not sure which Walmart or Target you shop at, but they're definitely there, BestBuy too. In fact, the Walmart here was literally sold out of Echo devices. As for the number sold, I know a lot of people with these things. The issue for me as a developer is that monetizing these things is far easier said than done. There's no pay-to-play app store and subscriptions require an off device setup. That's a lot of friction to overcome to cover your dev costs.
Would that leave scavenging are the only humane method for the acquisition of nutrients?
TIL there is a Rick and Morty Monopoly game. Too late for Santa delivery by the 25th?
There's Costco in Canada, but $2000 will only get you 4-5 visits. :-\
Yeah, no, Russia spends 3x what Canada spends. Roughly the same as Saudi Arbia, sure, but Canada, no. source
I don't know, I've been to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York over the last 6 months and the number of native Chinese seems to growing, not shrinking. I'm pretty sure they didn't come to the US to find worse paying jobs.
The gist of all this is that these companies were intending to monetize the services and / or hosting. Instead, AWS is monetizing the services and hosting. So, in effect, AWS is eating these companies lunches. I see how this is bad news for the companies developing these products, but it's the natural order of things. The open source Pandora's box has been opened, there's no stuffing the lid back on it now. First hardware got commoditized, then software got commoditized, and now services are getting commoditized. They need to find a way to move up the value chain (eg. consulting / education / customizations), or their air supply will eventually run out.
"Virtual coffee breaks, where employees talk about their lives outside GitLab, are built into everyone's schedules." that's interesting stuff, but the linked article doesn't expand on it at all, so I found this write up on Quartz in case anyone is interested. Seems like it would be a bit awkward at first, but I don't hate the concept, but it seems awkward, part of the coffee break is getting away from your desk.
Exactly, anytime I see " struggling to find qualified engineers", there's always the missing "... at the wage we're offering" part missing to the statement. If you're struggling to find a set number of qualified engineers, it's because the pay is too low, end of story. If you're sitting at the right of the demand curve looking for large numbers of workers at low wages and not finding equilibrium in the labor market, then you have 2 choices: hire fewer workers or increase wages, that's why it's called the LAW of supply and demand. I will guarantee a tsunami of qualified applicants if the wage is bumped to $1,000,000 / year, I will also guarantee a dearth of qualified applicants at $1 / year, the solution lies somewhere in the middle, but certainly higher than the current "offering".
Except Trump knows cell phones, nobody knows cell phones like him, let me tell you, you know, he has a cell phone. Has had one right from the start of phones. He knows what it takes to build one, and he's not buying it. We can create good, no great, jobs, let me tell you, for American people. It's people who make a difference, little people, like the people who build things. These are going to be the best, and Trump knows best better than anyone, cell phones the world has ever seen, and American's are going to build them, and export them to China, and those tiny Canadians. We're going to be the hugest cell phoning creating country the world has ever seen, and we're going to have it now. It's simple, mark his words, we ... will ... build ... them, and it's going to be great, and the phones are going to be great. The best the world has ever seen. He knows cell phones, not like that crooked Hillary, has anybody see those mail servers, but we're going to build those cell phones. The fake news will tell you cell phones can't be done, but Trump knows for a fact, he's seen it, that they are built here, and they're great, let me tell you.
I knew I wasn't the only guy thinking of this! Biggest problem I see is something severs the cable or an container integrity breach. Unlike air, everything in that container is lost if water gets in.
I'll take a UNIX kernel option too instead of Windows + Registry. In other words Windows Subsystem for UNIX. To me, Linux Subsystem for Windows is like glueing McLaren parts onto a Ford Fiesta and calling the result a sports car. I'd much rather bolt some Ford Fiesta parts onto a McLaren and take that to the races.
There are an awful lot of lower tier ex-programmers and ex-program managers who shifted to selling Agile panacea and Scrum Master certificates. It's a guaranteed they'll fight like hell when the charade is exposed and their jobs / billings are under threat. It's all a scam as soon as someone who's not a core developer gets brought into the mix. It's an even bigger scam if points get corrupted into something billable. Estimation is an art, not a science, Agile gives it an air of science with nice round numbers that can be multiplied by dollar amounts and plugged into Excel. We may be able to fix a lot of what is wrong with Agile by replacing the numbers with emoji, otherwise it's just a repackaging of the same old project management accounting that has existed forever.
Wish I had mod points, your point is exactly right.
Well yeah, no shit. Just like there are more $25,000/year jobs in Palo Alto than people to fill them. You'd be luck to be able to rent a basement shoebox studio on $25,000 a year in Palo Alto.
It's the most basic hour 1 of day 1 of intro to economics supply and demand situation. Not able to fill an opening? Guess what, you're to the right on the supply curve where supply (jobs) exceeds demand (labor). There is one of 2 solutions, you either raise the wage offered and move back towards equilibrium, or you hope people get demoralized, then pray supply curve rises to equilibrium at the price you want.
People don't want low pay, part time work? Have you tried offering them above market pay, full time work? Seems to be working for Google and Facebook where they have an endless firehose of applicants.
WTF? It's not April 1. The Onion? Nope, the Wash Post. Kinda hoping I never have to code review her work because that's some level 5 batshit crazy. First, it's 240,000 miles from Earth. You're not dropping anything from 30+ Earths away. Second, there's a thin layer of "stuff" around earth that likes to vaporize or at least disintegrate stuff from space that wants to hit the earth. However, let's not let science get in the way of misinformation. I'd keep going but I have to head down to Costco for my law class.
Java's a language based on old programming paradigms and it's core purpose for existing (WORA) is gone as a result of Linux owning the datacenter and containerization. I'm relatively well connected to the startup community and I know of exactly zero startups greenfielding backend work on Java out of the ~30 I have insight into. The primary use cases keeping Java popular are Android and AWS. Android is rapidly transitioning to Kotlin and Java running on AWS is actively being replaced by Node and Python. Java will stick around in legacy functions, much like COBOL, so it's not going away, but new development on Java is almost certainly going to continue to decline.
Agreed, created an account there just to camp on my username. I'm not migrating from GitHub *yet*, but I will jump at the first mention of "migrating to windows".
I was coming to say this, never had a problem with these, they were really excellent and well locked down little routers. However, they fact they're discontinued is a big red flag, I can't recommend them without ongoing support.
Ha, nice one! You probably went over 95% of the people on Slashdot's heads though. Not exactly the wood-shop crowd hanging out here.
The FAANGs hire a tiny fraction of a percent of the people who apply there. There's no shortage of skilled people. There is may be a shortage of people who can pass their filters and interviews, but shortage of CS grads? No, absolutely not. If the FAANGs hired everybody who applied and still needed more people, then it would be a shortage. When you can afford to be so selective as to turn away 99.9% of the people who apply to your company, then you're facing anything but a shortage. Now, if you're looking for a senior engineer under 30 with 20 years experience in machine learning, 3 published works, and at least 4 patents to their name, you're going to pay through the nose. Complaining there's a shortage of Bugatti Veyrons available to buy for your car pool service is pretty disingenuous when there is a virtually unlimited supply of Chrysler Minivans that could absolutely do the job that needs to be done.
... and yes I stole that idea straight from Blade Runner 2049.
The video in the article straightens that all out. TLDR; the body is tiny and the blades are huge, plus they spin really f-ing fast. The big unanswered question to me is, who's gonna pick it up if it falls on it's side!?! Not to knock the work of 2 dozen PhDs who spent 4 years on this, but wouldn't it be "better" to have it dock on the rover where it could recharge (and save the weight of it's own panels) and get safely locked in place, plus maybe cleaned?
Sincerely,
A NASA Intern Wannabe
I know I'm pedantic here, but the near zero Kelvin temps apply to interstellar space, within solar space it's significantly warmer (>150 Kelvin), but you're still going to need to pack a jacket.
I might actually consider a Windows shell that runs on Ubuntu, but an Ubuntu shell running on Windows, yeah, no thanks. The broken bits are still non-optional.
It's not high taxes, taxes in California are almost as high. The difference is that instead of $120K CDN salary, end of story, in Toronto, I can make a $200K USD salary, and $150K USD in RSUs. It's hard to argue with $440K CDN vs $120K CDN. The other problem is companies in Canada are mostly "tech" in name only, they don't act like tech companies (old tech stacks, MS and Java) and consider engineers as "cost centers" rather than "core" to the company mission. When the wages and attitude catch up, I suggest trimming some micro-management fat, the drainage will slow. I don't think it will ever reverse without a tech enlightenment at the corporate level and an explosion in wages. Until then, Canada get's the Trump tech refuges who would much rather be in the US earning solid salaries rather than the same amount my dad earned in 1985 when houses cost $200K CAD.