I've been in programming and IT since I was 18 years old and I've NEVER seen an issue of age discrimination. As an example, the CTO at my current job is in his 60s. I am 34.
A trend I do see is that older people stop caring after a while. I work in the healthcare industry and we get strict audits constantly due to HIPAA regulations. At a previous job, about half our staff was laid off once due to refusing to fix issues that came up during 3 different audits. The majority of these employees were older, 45+. They attempted legal action, but it didn't get anywhere. The things that came up were explained off by responses such as 'it's not a problem' or 'we don't have the resources to fix that'. The company got tired of hearing no and losing clients, and after an investigation via a 3rd party, they fired all of those that refused to do their jobs and brought in newer folks. The newer folks fixed the issues within 2 months and the company doubled in size, revenue, and profit. All of the newer folks were people in their prime years, all getting married, having babies, etc. Most in their 20s and 30s
The so called 'Brexit' is media hyperbole and nothing more. Mark my words. The slang 'Brexit' itself was invented by the media. Will there be change? Oh sure, there will be. Has there always been change? Yep. Is change bad? Nope. Will the world end as predicted by CNN or other news sources? Nope. Anything to drive the traffic...
That's not the employee's issue, that's the employer's issue. Standards are set too high. The company doesn't want to be on the hook for training. Companies of old had classrooms where people were trained. Investing in your Employees meant investing in your company. Companies all over the world are going to be hit hard as time goes on. The global economy is already showing signs of hitting a ceiling.
This also ties in very closely with wage inequality. As wages go down, so does the GDP for a given country. People can't spend money they don't have (excluding using credit cards, etc.) That means 'growth' will no longer be possible, and instead you'll be seeing recession after recession as the market continually corrects itself.
Note that I don't have a horse in this race (I make a good salary).
I have. I didn't even fight it, I just filed it away in my filing cabinet since it didn't have a court date or anything. I was on camera where I parked. I took a picture of the signage (it was a bit confusing the way it was worded, this was NYC well over a decade ago). Next time I drove into NYC, the signage was changed to be more clear. I haven't heard a peep out of them since. No collection letters, nothing. The only theory I could come up with is that they got sued over the signage being unclear. If they had attempted to collect on it, I would have taken them to court. I actually still have that picture to this day.
On the contrary, I am aching beyond all belief for Linux to have awesome game support. Just because you posted this, I demand that you cease using Linux for all eternity! You must also cease using Windows as well.
Did you even read that RFC you linked? You'll also note that's a 20 year old RFC. HTTP 1.0. At minimum you should read the HTTP 1.1 spec before you start trash talking others.
False. The real scenario: That is the problem all over the world, but in my apple walled garden, that seemingly doesn't exist. Nevermind the fact that credit cards 'have never been cloned before'. I can take a picture of the front and back of your credit card and for apple's purposes, it's legit.
Yes, they can. I've had it happen on about 1% of the purchases that I've bought from G2A (publishers DO report chargebacks, which filter up to valve). G2A refunds the money for sure, but they are left holding the bag. You don't get notification when valve revokes your license, nor will you with other publishers such as blizzard. Took me 2 months to get an issue resolved with blizzard (didn't notice until after the revocation had occurred). While G2A resolved it amicably (after I reported it), I've not bought a game from them since. G2A is a fly-by-night company. If they went out of business tomorrow due to charge-backs, the owners walk away millionaires and leave you, or your credit card company, SOL.
If you are in IT, chances are you have shopped around for wage increases anyway. I learned my lesson with a 'career' job long ago when management for said position couldn't be bothered to even give me a raise to the average salary for the position I was working in. 3 weeks later and a 30% salary increase...goodbye.
Yep, and for this reason, I live on a dead-end road near a cul-de-sac. The closest main road has two 4-way stops, so anyone trying to 'cut through' due to construction will find themselves in stop and go traffic for about 20 minutes. It's the perfect setup, I can get out easily (4-way stop) and I'm far enough away for traffic not to be a factor. In a city where 90 or so people move in every day, it's a godsend. Oh and did I mention there is a pool?
Sounds like you have hardware issues not related to your OS. Not only have I been running Windows 10 on an astounding number of home PCs (8!!!), but my company is in the middle of a mass deployment and things are working out just fine. The only issues I've hit are an occasional explorer stall out...which appears to be related to the start menu. I even copied 4 TB of data from 2-2 TB hds to a RAID-1 5 TB array without issue. Took 13.6 hours and completed with no problems. Not a fan of microsoft at all (I'm a mac guy with a broadwell macbook pro...though I'm loving ubuntu 16.04...dual booting it!), but senseless bashing shows you are a shill. Don't be a shill. Please?
Many banks also use cobol. Nothing to see here, move along.
Side note: Note a big fan of using an extremely old, well established, yet un-maintained language (except by a small niche, don't believe what you read on wikipedia, most of the cobol code out there has existed for longer than the average north american lifespan,) I've dealt with it before, I've watched companies dump hundreds of thousands or millions into it...only to discover a bazillion security holes or performance issues in whatever product was being offered (ERP in the cases mentioned above)
Losing my mod points for this. CentOS 6.8 is designed to be binary compatible with RHEL 6.8, which uses the same kernel version. CentOS 6.8 is NOT the latest CentOS version, with CentOS 7.0 taking that honor. You can hardly be 'binary compatible' with a specific version of RHEL unless you use the same kernel version. A lot of mission critical systems rely on CentOS, so please don't flame them. If you want a bleeding edge kernel, use another distro.
You aren't thinking outside the box. The robot IS the freezer. Food comes in cartridges that are promptly loaded by the sole human being working there. The robot assembles food inside a chamber specifically designed for that type of food, so it will never drop the food or make it the wrong way. This isn't about a robot that acts like a human, this is about a robot making food.
While I do disagree with the proposal in general, VB wasn't about OO, it was about "getting shit done". For the same reason that a lot of people did bat-shit insane stuff in excel, in VB you could whip out an app in record time compared to other languages and frameworks. Note that this niche has been filled, NOT by anything Microsoft or fan-made, but by none other than Ruby on Rails. The same reason why VB is popular (quickly and easily able to build apps while also having the ability to access the low level API) is also why RoR practically dominates Agile development and why companies continue to pay record breaking salaries to RoR developers today.
The problem with code quality is that it is subjective. Some people (aka architecture astronauts) love complex, multi-tiered code with multiple classes and tons of inheritance. Others prefer the simplest code required to get the job done. Still others like some type of balance between the two. Code, much like art, cannot be judged because of this.
Just an FYI, Philadelphia was enforcing this when i flew out of there a few weeks ago to come home. They asked me specifically about those items prior to letting me check my bags in. Nashville (my hometown) had not started this procedure yet.
Knowing 'how' to program isn't knowing syntax, etc. It's knowing how to apply that syntax to real life problems an scenarios. Many people seem to forget this. To put another way, if i ask you to build a bridge, it doesn't matter that you have all of the tools to build a bridge and know how to use those tools, can you actually build the bridge is the problem at hand.
You should stop posting as you have no idea what you are talking about. The statute of limitations for most states is based on either a) the police report filing date. (i.e. if the crime happened 4 years ago, you reported it, but it didn't go to court until year 8, the time elapsed is considered to be 4 years, not 8) or for civil matters, the date the action happened and the lawsuit was filed. The court case could take 20 years to start, but wouldn't violate the SOL.
Have to pipe in here. That's false. You can lose your house over pretty much anything. Including that bullshit doctor bill for $50 you refused to pay for 5 years ago. All it takes is a default judgement, and then they can foreclose if you refuse to pay up. They get a lien on the house and go to town.
Not really, their 2 hour delivery service was always merely a partnership with local (primarily) grocery stores. Amazon doesn't lose a dime regardless of where they provide this. Grocery stores (in my area...nashville) like publix (vs a much cheaper kroger or wal-mart) set the prices and the cost of delivery is built into the total cost of the service. No real 'poor' person will use it anyway. I don't mean to insult amazon, in some 'loss leading areas they provide quite a bit of value, but when I can take product X on their 'prime now' app and compare it to the amazon.com price as well as my grocery store price...guess who comes out way ahead? Wal-mart usually...barring that? Kroger. Definitely not Amazon or Publix.
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I've been in programming and IT since I was 18 years old and I've NEVER seen an issue of age discrimination. As an example, the CTO at my current job is in his 60s. I am 34.
A trend I do see is that older people stop caring after a while. I work in the healthcare industry and we get strict audits constantly due to HIPAA regulations. At a previous job, about half our staff was laid off once due to refusing to fix issues that came up during 3 different audits. The majority of these employees were older, 45+. They attempted legal action, but it didn't get anywhere. The things that came up were explained off by responses such as 'it's not a problem' or 'we don't have the resources to fix that'. The company got tired of hearing no and losing clients, and after an investigation via a 3rd party, they fired all of those that refused to do their jobs and brought in newer folks. The newer folks fixed the issues within 2 months and the company doubled in size, revenue, and profit. All of the newer folks were people in their prime years, all getting married, having babies, etc. Most in their 20s and 30s
The so called 'Brexit' is media hyperbole and nothing more. Mark my words. The slang 'Brexit' itself was invented by the media. Will there be change? Oh sure, there will be. Has there always been change? Yep. Is change bad? Nope. Will the world end as predicted by CNN or other news sources? Nope. Anything to drive the traffic...
That's not the employee's issue, that's the employer's issue. Standards are set too high. The company doesn't want to be on the hook for training. Companies of old had classrooms where people were trained. Investing in your Employees meant investing in your company. Companies all over the world are going to be hit hard as time goes on. The global economy is already showing signs of hitting a ceiling.
This also ties in very closely with wage inequality. As wages go down, so does the GDP for a given country. People can't spend money they don't have (excluding using credit cards, etc.) That means 'growth' will no longer be possible, and instead you'll be seeing recession after recession as the market continually corrects itself.
Note that I don't have a horse in this race (I make a good salary).
I have. I didn't even fight it, I just filed it away in my filing cabinet since it didn't have a court date or anything. I was on camera where I parked. I took a picture of the signage (it was a bit confusing the way it was worded, this was NYC well over a decade ago). Next time I drove into NYC, the signage was changed to be more clear. I haven't heard a peep out of them since. No collection letters, nothing. The only theory I could come up with is that they got sued over the signage being unclear. If they had attempted to collect on it, I would have taken them to court. I actually still have that picture to this day.
On the contrary, I am aching beyond all belief for Linux to have awesome game support. Just because you posted this, I demand that you cease using Linux for all eternity! You must also cease using Windows as well.
What do you think that JSON documents are for?
Did you even read that RFC you linked? You'll also note that's a 20 year old RFC. HTTP 1.0. At minimum you should read the HTTP 1.1 spec before you start trash talking others.
False. The real scenario: That is the problem all over the world, but in my apple walled garden, that seemingly doesn't exist. Nevermind the fact that credit cards 'have never been cloned before'. I can take a picture of the front and back of your credit card and for apple's purposes, it's legit.
Yes, they can. I've had it happen on about 1% of the purchases that I've bought from G2A (publishers DO report chargebacks, which filter up to valve). G2A refunds the money for sure, but they are left holding the bag. You don't get notification when valve revokes your license, nor will you with other publishers such as blizzard. Took me 2 months to get an issue resolved with blizzard (didn't notice until after the revocation had occurred). While G2A resolved it amicably (after I reported it), I've not bought a game from them since. G2A is a fly-by-night company. If they went out of business tomorrow due to charge-backs, the owners walk away millionaires and leave you, or your credit card company, SOL.
If you are in IT, chances are you have shopped around for wage increases anyway. I learned my lesson with a 'career' job long ago when management for said position couldn't be bothered to even give me a raise to the average salary for the position I was working in. 3 weeks later and a 30% salary increase...goodbye.
Yep, and for this reason, I live on a dead-end road near a cul-de-sac. The closest main road has two 4-way stops, so anyone trying to 'cut through' due to construction will find themselves in stop and go traffic for about 20 minutes. It's the perfect setup, I can get out easily (4-way stop) and I'm far enough away for traffic not to be a factor. In a city where 90 or so people move in every day, it's a godsend. Oh and did I mention there is a pool?
He's lying, so you won't find anything anywhere.
Sounds like you have hardware issues not related to your OS. Not only have I been running Windows 10 on an astounding number of home PCs (8!!!), but my company is in the middle of a mass deployment and things are working out just fine. The only issues I've hit are an occasional explorer stall out...which appears to be related to the start menu. I even copied 4 TB of data from 2-2 TB hds to a RAID-1 5 TB array without issue. Took 13.6 hours and completed with no problems. Not a fan of microsoft at all (I'm a mac guy with a broadwell macbook pro...though I'm loving ubuntu 16.04...dual booting it!), but senseless bashing shows you are a shill. Don't be a shill. Please?
Many banks also use cobol. Nothing to see here, move along. Side note: Note a big fan of using an extremely old, well established, yet un-maintained language (except by a small niche, don't believe what you read on wikipedia, most of the cobol code out there has existed for longer than the average north american lifespan,) I've dealt with it before, I've watched companies dump hundreds of thousands or millions into it...only to discover a bazillion security holes or performance issues in whatever product was being offered (ERP in the cases mentioned above)
Losing my mod points for this. CentOS 6.8 is designed to be binary compatible with RHEL 6.8, which uses the same kernel version. CentOS 6.8 is NOT the latest CentOS version, with CentOS 7.0 taking that honor. You can hardly be 'binary compatible' with a specific version of RHEL unless you use the same kernel version. A lot of mission critical systems rely on CentOS, so please don't flame them. If you want a bleeding edge kernel, use another distro.
You aren't thinking outside the box. The robot IS the freezer. Food comes in cartridges that are promptly loaded by the sole human being working there. The robot assembles food inside a chamber specifically designed for that type of food, so it will never drop the food or make it the wrong way. This isn't about a robot that acts like a human, this is about a robot making food.
While I do disagree with the proposal in general, VB wasn't about OO, it was about "getting shit done". For the same reason that a lot of people did bat-shit insane stuff in excel, in VB you could whip out an app in record time compared to other languages and frameworks. Note that this niche has been filled, NOT by anything Microsoft or fan-made, but by none other than Ruby on Rails. The same reason why VB is popular (quickly and easily able to build apps while also having the ability to access the low level API) is also why RoR practically dominates Agile development and why companies continue to pay record breaking salaries to RoR developers today.
The problem with code quality is that it is subjective. Some people (aka architecture astronauts) love complex, multi-tiered code with multiple classes and tons of inheritance. Others prefer the simplest code required to get the job done. Still others like some type of balance between the two. Code, much like art, cannot be judged because of this.
Just an FYI, Philadelphia was enforcing this when i flew out of there a few weeks ago to come home. They asked me specifically about those items prior to letting me check my bags in. Nashville (my hometown) had not started this procedure yet.
I've never had that issue, can you let me know what titles I should be concerned about? Recently ripped SWTFO for example.
Knowing 'how' to program isn't knowing syntax, etc. It's knowing how to apply that syntax to real life problems an scenarios. Many people seem to forget this. To put another way, if i ask you to build a bridge, it doesn't matter that you have all of the tools to build a bridge and know how to use those tools, can you actually build the bridge is the problem at hand.
You should stop posting as you have no idea what you are talking about. The statute of limitations for most states is based on either a) the police report filing date. (i.e. if the crime happened 4 years ago, you reported it, but it didn't go to court until year 8, the time elapsed is considered to be 4 years, not 8) or for civil matters, the date the action happened and the lawsuit was filed. The court case could take 20 years to start, but wouldn't violate the SOL.
False. The statue of limitations in most states is 6 years. The kickstarter campaign is less than 3 years old.
Have to pipe in here. That's false. You can lose your house over pretty much anything. Including that bullshit doctor bill for $50 you refused to pay for 5 years ago. All it takes is a default judgement, and then they can foreclose if you refuse to pay up. They get a lien on the house and go to town.
Not really, their 2 hour delivery service was always merely a partnership with local (primarily) grocery stores. Amazon doesn't lose a dime regardless of where they provide this. Grocery stores (in my area...nashville) like publix (vs a much cheaper kroger or wal-mart) set the prices and the cost of delivery is built into the total cost of the service. No real 'poor' person will use it anyway. I don't mean to insult amazon, in some 'loss leading areas they provide quite a bit of value, but when I can take product X on their 'prime now' app and compare it to the amazon.com price as well as my grocery store price...guess who comes out way ahead? Wal-mart usually...barring that? Kroger. Definitely not Amazon or Publix.