When what's in the database is directly related to $$$, like account balances, financial transactions, hard asset tracking, billing, SSNs, payroll, and legal compliance, you use a serious tool like Oracle. Would you trust your paycheck being deposited into your bank account correctly to MongoDB? MySQL? Postgres? Not to say you can't try to do it with those tools, but with Oracle, you can be pretty much guaranteed that even if all your data centers simultaneously sink into the ocean, you can recover your financial data to a consistent state at a known point in time, even if it's from multiple snippets of backups. Oracle's consistency and recovery tools are still second to none in the industry.
If you're tracking tweets, dating profiles, blog posts, or network traffic... then your data isn't business critical and you could even use flat files if you were a sadist and really wanted to.
Look, I use PostgreSQL, Sqlite, and even BigTable for various repositories, they're all very good tools given a use case, but that's not data that would sink the business if it wasn't 100% completely accurate. Those data in those tools can suffer some data loss and, even though it would make for a particularly unpleasant period of work and meetings, the continuity of the business would not at stake.
That's the really messed up thing here, because that's what H1Bs are supposed to be for. If someone has been told outright that H1Bs are replacing them, they need to immediately file a WH-4 with the Department of Labor:
I'm with you. I just can't see a good use for Touch Bar... at least not yet. I don't look at my keyboard when I type, why would I want to start? If there had been a massive spec upgrade, I'd be all over it... but other than faster RAM and SSD, the maxed Skylake number cruncher is benchmarks about the same (some benchmarks even mark it slower) than the existing maxed Haswell in my MBP. I personally don't see a compelling reason to fork over $3500 for something that isn't going to be noticeably faster than what I already have. If I was a photographer I might be swayed by the wide gamut display, but for coding in black and white text, gamut just doesn't buy me anything. It's disappointing Intel CPUs got stuck at the 3Ghz ceiling. Give me 8 cores, dual CPUs... anything to alleviate my CPU bottleneck.
"If you're an AI, you'll be able to repeat the sentence verbatim."
That's not how machine learning is usually designed. Not to say it couldn't be designed that way, but in normal scenarios AI doesn't keep the raw input information for any longer than is needed to contextualize it and adjust it's algorithmic weights. The machine would have a "memory" of the outcome given the sentence, but the original sentence itself would be "forgotten".
Ok, but chroot != sandbox, it's not really even sandbox-lite. A sandbox is complete process isolation, almost full virtualization, not just obfuscating the system root. I say almost because the process doesn't have to include it's own OS.
I use a DAC at my desk too (the sound quality is that much better), but, like you said, I don't carry one with me. I always use wired headphones. Every. Single. Time. I detest the sound quality of wireless audio. When I'm on the road, on a plane, or away from my desk I *do* use the headphone jack. Yeah it's not the majority of the time, but I'd miss it a lot if it went away. I *assume* I could use a dongle, but that's one more port being occupied. Anyhow, my vote is leave it alone. It's not like the mic jack that saw little use.
If H1Bs are for jobs no qualified American can fill, and HCL has a whole slew of H1Bs. Laying off American's actually working in those jobs to replace them with H1Bs from HCL should prove something no? The H1B program likely needs to be scrapped altogether. Granted there are some legitimate H1B holders, but it's obvious it's being abused. Anyhow, the bar for H1Bs is too low and vague. EB visas, which require extensive documentation supporting the claimed skill level, should be the go to for skilled immigration. If UCSF wants to outsource, then they can deal with staff physically located in India and all the logistical challenges that entails.
I thought it meant "system binaries", although I really like the idea of a/bin dedicated to binaries with zero external dependencies for system recovery and the like.
"Earlier this month the site compared this year's drunk driving arrests to last years -- and discovered that in the three weeks since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving."
Other than catering to lobbyists for cash, there's nothing that govts enjoy more than "incidental" revenue. Literal "public safety" is somewhere near the bottom of the list, somewhere after "leaving things in better shape for my successor".
My thoughts exactly. In fact, I'd add that security / compatibility / crash tolerance / performance all completely trump efficiency. In other words, nobody aware of other options is going to care one iota about efficiency if a browser is insecure -or- incompatible -or- crashy -or- slow.
The numbers here indicate that the US economy is already incapable of creating sufficient full time jobs, let alone keep up with the growth in the labor force:
Kinda my take on it too. If they want to offshore work, then offshore it and deal with the accompanying barriers to getting stuff accomplished. Otherwise, hire people here and treat them fairly. Note that unlike H1Bs, if they don't treat them fairly, they're free to move on. What they can't have is the indentured, underpaid, but physically present H1B worker who doesn't dare speak up because they know they have a sword of Damocles in the form of a one way economy flight ticket to Bangalore hanging over them.
That doesn't work. My guess is t's the old paradox of choice. With a DVD playing overhead, there's no choice... it's on... you watch. With a tablet their little minds wander into "what else is on / can I do" territory and the descent into anarchy begins.
Yeah, I took a semester long COBOL class in college. I remember very little of it other than having to book time on a specific IBM machine to do the assignments. Good times.
I like the idea of an H1B tax. Say 50% of the wage paid to the H1B holder has to be paid by the employer into social security. If H1Bs are paid the "prevailing" wage + the employer has to pay 50% of gross wages into social security, then only true H1B candidates should get hired, since there should be no cost saving involved, in the end it should always be more expensive to hire an H1B. For enforcement, any employer found guilty in court of underpaying an H1B could be subjected to 100% social security back tax for all H1Bs employed by the company for a 5 year period. This helps fund social security, prevents the exploitation of H1Bs from below market wages, and protects American applicants / job holders from unfair wage competition. Companies would get greater access to H1Bs as a result of reduced misuse to acquire the talent they really can't get here. If everyone plays by the rules, it's win-win.
"That's common in Florida and Texas from what I understand. I'm not sure why California costs so much for the same thing..."
That's an easy one... jobs. Jobs that have benefits and pay (well) above minimum wage. I've lived in Florida and California, the labor market between the two is night and day. Saving 15% of Florida wages for retirement != saving 15% of California wages for retirement. I'd rather work 20 years in California and retire to Florida than work 60 years in Florida to build the same nest egg and die before retiring.
Well, technically C and C++ are AT&T company languages. Java is a Sun company language. Perl is a Unisys company language. Python is a CWI company language. I'm not judging the merits of Swift, but just because it's a company language doesn't (necessarily) doom it to failure.
"chuck whatever $#!t compiles over the wall every Friday"
That is a far more common strategy than simply under the guise of Agile. Compilers are perfectly capable of compiling garbage. It's the special kind of craftsmanship that makes me want to scream.
If you're Home Depot, no... while it's important, those few milliseconds of lag and somewhat less native UI isn't a primary business concern.
If you're trying to take on an 'A' player like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, or trying to establish a new service, yes... your experience has to be as optimized as possible to stay / get ahead of your competition.
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When what's in the database is directly related to $$$, like account balances, financial transactions, hard asset tracking, billing, SSNs, payroll, and legal compliance, you use a serious tool like Oracle. Would you trust your paycheck being deposited into your bank account correctly to MongoDB? MySQL? Postgres? Not to say you can't try to do it with those tools, but with Oracle, you can be pretty much guaranteed that even if all your data centers simultaneously sink into the ocean, you can recover your financial data to a consistent state at a known point in time, even if it's from multiple snippets of backups. Oracle's consistency and recovery tools are still second to none in the industry.
... then your data isn't business critical and you could even use flat files if you were a sadist and really wanted to.
If you're tracking tweets, dating profiles, blog posts, or network traffic
Look, I use PostgreSQL, Sqlite, and even BigTable for various repositories, they're all very good tools given a use case, but that's not data that would sink the business if it wasn't 100% completely accurate. Those data in those tools can suffer some data loss and, even though it would make for a particularly unpleasant period of work and meetings, the continuity of the business would not at stake.
That's the really messed up thing here, because that's what H1Bs are supposed to be for. If someone has been told outright that H1Bs are replacing them, they need to immediately file a WH-4 with the Department of Labor:
WH4-DOL
Bitching about it on social media is fine, but an investigation from the DOL is what will really make people sit up and listen.
I'm with you. I just can't see a good use for Touch Bar ... at least not yet. I don't look at my keyboard when I type, why would I want to start? If there had been a massive spec upgrade, I'd be all over it ... but other than faster RAM and SSD, the maxed Skylake number cruncher is benchmarks about the same (some benchmarks even mark it slower) than the existing maxed Haswell in my MBP. I personally don't see a compelling reason to fork over $3500 for something that isn't going to be noticeably faster than what I already have. If I was a photographer I might be swayed by the wide gamut display, but for coding in black and white text, gamut just doesn't buy me anything. It's disappointing Intel CPUs got stuck at the 3Ghz ceiling. Give me 8 cores, dual CPUs ... anything to alleviate my CPU bottleneck.
"If you're an AI, you'll be able to repeat the sentence verbatim."
That's not how machine learning is usually designed. Not to say it couldn't be designed that way, but in normal scenarios AI doesn't keep the raw input information for any longer than is needed to contextualize it and adjust it's algorithmic weights. The machine would have a "memory" of the outcome given the sentence, but the original sentence itself would be "forgotten".
Ok, but chroot != sandbox, it's not really even sandbox-lite. A sandbox is complete process isolation, almost full virtualization, not just obfuscating the system root. I say almost because the process doesn't have to include it's own OS.
Well, this is hands down the winner of this discussion! If only I had mod points.
Gods forbid that a child sees a nipple.
Well, it is a slippery slope, where does it end? The next thing you know we'll be exposing innocent new born infants to nipples. Degenerates!!!
I use a DAC at my desk too (the sound quality is that much better), but, like you said, I don't carry one with me. I always use wired headphones. Every. Single. Time. I detest the sound quality of wireless audio. When I'm on the road, on a plane, or away from my desk I *do* use the headphone jack. Yeah it's not the majority of the time, but I'd miss it a lot if it went away. I *assume* I could use a dongle, but that's one more port being occupied. Anyhow, my vote is leave it alone. It's not like the mic jack that saw little use.
What makes you think the senior executive team at Apple doesn't do that already?
If H1Bs are for jobs no qualified American can fill, and HCL has a whole slew of H1Bs. Laying off American's actually working in those jobs to replace them with H1Bs from HCL should prove something no? The H1B program likely needs to be scrapped altogether. Granted there are some legitimate H1B holders, but it's obvious it's being abused. Anyhow, the bar for H1Bs is too low and vague. EB visas, which require extensive documentation supporting the claimed skill level, should be the go to for skilled immigration. If UCSF wants to outsource, then they can deal with staff physically located in India and all the logistical challenges that entails.
I thought it meant "system binaries", although I really like the idea of a /bin dedicated to binaries with zero external dependencies for system recovery and the like.
I don't know that!
"Earlier this month the site compared this year's drunk driving arrests to last years -- and discovered that in the three weeks since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving."
Other than catering to lobbyists for cash, there's nothing that govts enjoy more than "incidental" revenue. Literal "public safety" is somewhere near the bottom of the list, somewhere after "leaving things in better shape for my successor".
My thoughts exactly. In fact, I'd add that security / compatibility / crash tolerance / performance all completely trump efficiency. In other words, nobody aware of other options is going to care one iota about efficiency if a browser is insecure -or- incompatible -or- crashy -or- slow.
The numbers here indicate that the US economy is already incapable of creating sufficient full time jobs, let alone keep up with the growth in the labor force:
http://www.marketplace.org/201...
Kinda my take on it too. If they want to offshore work, then offshore it and deal with the accompanying barriers to getting stuff accomplished. Otherwise, hire people here and treat them fairly. Note that unlike H1Bs, if they don't treat them fairly, they're free to move on. What they can't have is the indentured, underpaid, but physically present H1B worker who doesn't dare speak up because they know they have a sword of Damocles in the form of a one way economy flight ticket to Bangalore hanging over them.
That doesn't work. My guess is t's the old paradox of choice. With a DVD playing overhead, there's no choice ... it's on ... you watch. With a tablet their little minds wander into "what else is on / can I do" territory and the descent into anarchy begins.
Yeah, I took a semester long COBOL class in college. I remember very little of it other than having to book time on a specific IBM machine to do the assignments. Good times.
I like the idea of an H1B tax. Say 50% of the wage paid to the H1B holder has to be paid by the employer into social security. If H1Bs are paid the "prevailing" wage + the employer has to pay 50% of gross wages into social security, then only true H1B candidates should get hired, since there should be no cost saving involved, in the end it should always be more expensive to hire an H1B. For enforcement, any employer found guilty in court of underpaying an H1B could be subjected to 100% social security back tax for all H1Bs employed by the company for a 5 year period. This helps fund social security, prevents the exploitation of H1Bs from below market wages, and protects American applicants / job holders from unfair wage competition. Companies would get greater access to H1Bs as a result of reduced misuse to acquire the talent they really can't get here. If everyone plays by the rules, it's win-win.
"That's common in Florida and Texas from what I understand. I'm not sure why California costs so much for the same thing ..."
... jobs. Jobs that have benefits and pay (well) above minimum wage. I've lived in Florida and California, the labor market between the two is night and day. Saving 15% of Florida wages for retirement != saving 15% of California wages for retirement. I'd rather work 20 years in California and retire to Florida than work 60 years in Florida to build the same nest egg and die before retiring.
That's an easy one
Well, technically C and C++ are AT&T company languages. Java is a Sun company language. Perl is a Unisys company language. Python is a CWI company language. I'm not judging the merits of Swift, but just because it's a company language doesn't (necessarily) doom it to failure.
"chuck whatever $#!t compiles over the wall every Friday"
That is a far more common strategy than simply under the guise of Agile. Compilers are perfectly capable of compiling garbage. It's the special kind of craftsmanship that makes me want to scream.
Java has more usage than all three of them put together.
Might want to double check your spelling or your math there.
If you're Home Depot, no ... while it's important, those few milliseconds of lag and somewhat less native UI isn't a primary business concern.
... your experience has to be as optimized as possible to stay / get ahead of your competition.
If you're trying to take on an 'A' player like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, or trying to establish a new service, yes
Spoken like someone who has no idea that these exist:
https://www.apple.com/iphone/b...
https://developer.apple.com/pr...
You're misinformed and wrong at the same time, that's a dangerous combination.