Before jumpin' on the bandwagon. $380,000 is 9 to 12 times average salary (which is between $33,000 and $43,000.) I'd expect Joe average to earn more in the heart of capitalism.
Here on/. I officially represent the advertising market in this universe. Your comment makes so much sense that I will forward it to our members. As tomorrow Joan (our secretary) is off you should expect to see effects the day after.
Man here. Best working floor mentor I got was a woman. Loads of respect for people that take ownership of a problem and solve it methodically. Never seen that quality face to face in a man since then and I have been working CS since mid 80s.
I do however highly respect the people that develop and maintain the wonderful APIs I use on a daily base. Most of them I think are men. Never met them though.
Old school here. I access our Unix-like systems exclusively using Cygwin terminal which emulates xterm. At home I have Mac OS and FreeBSD. The latter one is a file server which I access mostly though a terminal.
Users pay to watch content and the content provider gets payed. Why would any outfit make it harder for customers to purchase their products by introducing regions? This discussion is not limited to Netflix but also holds for DVDs, Blue Rays, Amazon Prime, etc...
(I'm well aware that providers have licensed rights to representatives abroad and that that is a limiting factor. The question remains why content providers implement such ridiculous schemes.)
Eloquent POV. Almost as if you're trying to invision a world where everyone's doing drugs and thus inducing the idea that narcotics are fine. Were you high when you posted? Are you stil? And on what if I may ask? Is it legal? If so, can we get some? Should we get some?
Is this stuff that matters to geeks? Us geeks, we generally are better off with a clear head. Or are we still reminiscing the alleged positive effects of LSD on UNIX? Don't think Ken and Dennis did drugs.
Outsourcing may cut costs in the short term. If done well it will also cut costs in the long term. But hardly any outsourcing job gets done well. If the outsourcing company had developed their system well, then they would have had a system that operates at minimal costs and outsourcing wouldn't even be an issue.
I see the following scenario: Cognizant et all will gain bargaining power over their customers and prices will rise. Wages will go up and prices will rise even more. A fine equilibrium will be reached so that outsourcing will not be reversed. Then cockiness will tip the balance and insourcing threats will introduce a period of mistrust and negotiation. Eventually perhaps the tables will turn.
In short: Companies that take their system development seriously will gain over ones that don't. The former will have strong systems that are kept running by a minimal work force -Like us CS dudes actually think is sensible. Make your choice.
How about setting up solar power plants around the globe an exchange power. Get the power from the plants that are currently basking in the sun. A kid can think of that. Electric energy trading is already a reality.
Everywhere around the world we the people pay lawmakers. We can expect of them that they do their work. No, demand!
Unlike lobbies the people don't require anything in return for the money, we hand over the cash and maybe complain a bit. The lawmakers will just ignore your empty "demand" or pretend to be outraged while they ignore it.
Outrage merely evokes soothing. Seriousness, determination and persistence is what's needed to induce.
There's more to gifted than IQ. Being able to associate with the mental ranks that differs from yours -in both directions- is vital. As are application and persistence.
For instance, my kid knows he's intelligent but doesn't apply himself and thinks of all possible ways to avoid toiling -or what we would call doing slightly more than average. He'll find out later in life.
Or just now. While I was writing this mail he just got up to go to class and behaved exemplary. Annoying little brat. Never does what I expect he will!
Not pretty, or elegant or sensible, let alone honourable what VW did. I wish for a better environment. VW sort of cheated and I'm not happy about it.
In a legal sense however VW committed crimes when and if they acted against the law. We know that law and common sense do not always coincide.
The questions I have not seen yet are to establish whether case will actually stick. Was it unlawful of VW to rig the tests the way they did? Did laws make make provisions for such rigging? Or did the law provide testing conditions that were actually all met by VW?
Don't want to blindly defend VW. But the lawmakers must also be scrutinised. Crappy laws lead to crappy cases. And in this case I can't see why laws were not there for random testing in normal, day to day circumstances. I mean even a kid could have come up with this.
And then apparently there's might be a loophole.
Everywhere around the world we the people pay lawmakers. We can expect of them that they do their work. No, demand!
With the nose to the grindstone you can code applications. However, coding libs, reusable components or system software is a completely different ball game.
Unfortunately, regardless of how hard it is to write libraries and regardless of how much good libraries boot performance and reduce costs, most attention, fame and money reaches the application programmers.
It is very usual that priorities get inverted. You'd say that one diligently designs the architecture and that afterwards everything is derived from there. But that's hardly ever the case. People in spots where money flows (e.g. sysadmin, sales, purchase) usually have more influence than those who actually matter most in the light of business strategy.
Who will be your boss? Will he back you up? Did you guys actually analyze your business to develop a business strategy? Or do you have policy by decree? What will the guys say that will become redundant as a result of your optimizations?
I hope you will succeed in pushing your company forward; Costs and efficiency are always factors. If you don't have reall backup from the business strategy then you might head towards rubber stamp. You should avoid becoming a scapegoat for the mess the shop is in.
(I say this with long experience as programmer, sysadmin and architect.)
And what about the napkin arrangement? Many hours go into studying origami.
Finally someone takes action! The proprietors of Imbiss will be delighted. EUR 3 for a Bratwurst and a mere EUR 99 for the right to take a picture of the grub. Picture of the way the plastic container is presented? Prices start at EUR 250. Power to the chippies!
Java is the new COBOL. that's a status very few general purpose languages have reached. It runs everywhere, can do crazy stuff and banks have embraced it. I'll not jump ship for a long time.
But calling Java "a potential mobile device operating system" is bat shit crazy.
As a guy with very broad shoulders I say: Bring it on!
On planes I prefer aisle seats because that way I don't have to constrict myself in order not to disturb fellow passengers. For me one shoulder in the aisle is the way to travel. Every now and a trolley bangs into me. But so what.
Still I wonder how this is ever going to work gracefully.
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Before jumpin' on the bandwagon. $380,000 is 9 to 12 times average salary (which is between $33,000 and $43,000.) I'd expect Joe average to earn more in the heart of capitalism.
Here on /. I officially represent the advertising market in this universe. Your comment makes so much sense that I will forward it to our members. As tomorrow Joan (our secretary) is off you should expect to see effects the day after.
I do however highly respect the people that develop and maintain the wonderful APIs I use on a daily base. Most of them I think are men. Never met them though.
On xterm too?
Old school here. I access our Unix-like systems exclusively using Cygwin terminal which emulates xterm. At home I have Mac OS and FreeBSD. The latter one is a file server which I access mostly though a terminal.
What good do regions do to any business strategy?
Users pay to watch content and the content provider gets payed. Why would any outfit make it harder for customers to purchase their products by introducing regions? This discussion is not limited to Netflix but also holds for DVDs, Blue Rays, Amazon Prime, etc...
(I'm well aware that providers have licensed rights to representatives abroad and that that is a limiting factor. The question remains why content providers implement such ridiculous schemes.)
Avoid politics and choose the oceans.
Which country is calling? The country of UNIX? The country of the Chrysler 440 cubic inch engine? Throw the clown out and be American Americans!
Windows gets very usable once you installed Cygwin.
Eloquent POV. Almost as if you're trying to invision a world where everyone's doing drugs and thus inducing the idea that narcotics are fine. Were you high when you posted? Are you stil? And on what if I may ask? Is it legal? If so, can we get some? Should we get some?
All those in favor of random UUIDs, raise your hands.
Is this stuff that matters to geeks? Us geeks, we generally are better off with a clear head. Or are we still reminiscing the alleged positive effects of LSD on UNIX? Don't think Ken and Dennis did drugs.
The long term outlook bleak.
Outsourcing may cut costs in the short term. If done well it will also cut costs in the long term. But hardly any outsourcing job gets done well. If the outsourcing company had developed their system well, then they would have had a system that operates at minimal costs and outsourcing wouldn't even be an issue.
I see the following scenario: Cognizant et all will gain bargaining power over their customers and prices will rise. Wages will go up and prices will rise even more. A fine equilibrium will be reached so that outsourcing will not be reversed. Then cockiness will tip the balance and insourcing threats will introduce a period of mistrust and negotiation. Eventually perhaps the tables will turn.
In short: Companies that take their system development seriously will gain over ones that don't. The former will have strong systems that are kept running by a minimal work force -Like us CS dudes actually think is sensible. Make your choice.
How about setting up solar power plants around the globe an exchange power. Get the power from the plants that are currently basking in the sun. A kid can think of that. Electric energy trading is already a reality.
But only the diesel ones
Thanks for clarifying.
Great sig. BTW. - Me
Everywhere around the world we the people pay lawmakers. We can expect of them that they do their work. No, demand!
Unlike lobbies the people don't require anything in return for the money, we hand over the cash and maybe complain a bit. The lawmakers will just ignore your empty "demand" or pretend to be outraged while they ignore it.
Outrage merely evokes soothing. Seriousness, determination and persistence is what's needed to induce.
There's more to gifted than IQ. Being able to associate with the mental ranks that differs from yours -in both directions- is vital. As are application and persistence.
For instance, my kid knows he's intelligent but doesn't apply himself and thinks of all possible ways to avoid toiling -or what we would call doing slightly more than average. He'll find out later in life.
Or just now. While I was writing this mail he just got up to go to class and behaved exemplary. Annoying little brat. Never does what I expect he will!
Not pretty, or elegant or sensible, let alone honourable what VW did. I wish for a better environment. VW sort of cheated and I'm not happy about it.
In a legal sense however VW committed crimes when and if they acted against the law. We know that law and common sense do not always coincide.
The questions I have not seen yet are to establish whether case will actually stick. Was it unlawful of VW to rig the tests the way they did? Did laws make make provisions for such rigging? Or did the law provide testing conditions that were actually all met by VW?
Don't want to blindly defend VW. But the lawmakers must also be scrutinised. Crappy laws lead to crappy cases. And in this case I can't see why laws were not there for random testing in normal, day to day circumstances. I mean even a kid could have come up with this.
And then apparently there's might be a loophole.
Everywhere around the world we the people pay lawmakers. We can expect of them that they do their work. No, demand!
With the nose to the grindstone you can code applications. However, coding libs, reusable components or system software is a completely different ball game.
Unfortunately, regardless of how hard it is to write libraries and regardless of how much good libraries boot performance and reduce costs, most attention, fame and money reaches the application programmers.
It is very usual that priorities get inverted. You'd say that one diligently designs the architecture and that afterwards everything is derived from there. But that's hardly ever the case. People in spots where money flows (e.g. sysadmin, sales, purchase) usually have more influence than those who actually matter most in the light of business strategy.
Who will be your boss? Will he back you up? Did you guys actually analyze your business to develop a business strategy? Or do you have policy by decree? What will the guys say that will become redundant as a result of your optimizations?
I hope you will succeed in pushing your company forward; Costs and efficiency are always factors. If you don't have reall backup from the business strategy then you might head towards rubber stamp. You should avoid becoming a scapegoat for the mess the shop is in.
(I say this with long experience as programmer, sysadmin and architect.)
I might be completely out of touch here. But are 80GB drives still being sold? If so, is the price that prohibitive for Oakland?
Don't care much for surveillance ad nauseam. But this seems to be a 3rd world problem. Which is worse? Or is the one perhaps causing the other?
And what about the napkin arrangement? Many hours go into studying origami.
Finally someone takes action! The proprietors of Imbiss will be delighted. EUR 3 for a Bratwurst and a mere EUR 99 for the right to take a picture of the grub. Picture of the way the plastic container is presented? Prices start at EUR 250. Power to the chippies!
It'll never take you to a brothel though. As per usual they'll leave that to Google.
Java fanboy here.
Java is the new COBOL. that's a status very few general purpose languages have reached. It runs everywhere, can do crazy stuff and banks have embraced it. I'll not jump ship for a long time.
But calling Java "a potential mobile device operating system" is bat shit crazy.
As a guy with very broad shoulders I say: Bring it on!
On planes I prefer aisle seats because that way I don't have to constrict myself in order not to disturb fellow passengers. For me one shoulder in the aisle is the way to travel. Every now and a trolley bangs into me. But so what.
Still I wonder how this is ever going to work gracefully.