1) Microsoft works hard, I tell you hard to avoid these problems.
2) Customers are to blame too! (really)
3) It's the government's fault!
They're trying to direct the conversation so they don't get all the blame. The reality is, if Microsoft hadn't made the flaw, then this attack never would have happened.
That's a good question, and one you should answer before making grand conclusions like, "we are running out of jobs." The answer is very likely more boring than you wish it to be.
The counter-point is that the economy is a job creating machine. You're only seeing one side of the equation: jobs being lost. Your blind-spot is that you're not looking for jobs being created.
Did you know that "computer" used to be the job title for a human? They had rooms of people working, college educated people solving equations assembly-line style. Brain work has been replaced by automation for over half a century by now.
You seem to be making the mistake that 'companies' are a monolithic, single entity. As you know, the vast majority of companies don't use H1-Bs at all, but a few vocal ones make a lot of noise.
If the current unemployment trend continues (and it should), then pretty soon as the unemployed labor pool empties out, wages are going to start rising. As that happens, people's salaries are going to go up, and everyone will say how great Trump is. Won't you like that so much?
It actually goes deeper......they are getting something they don't deserve that comes out of my paycheck in the form of taxes. If I get just as much free stuff as that guy, then it's all good.
So because there are some people finding a job, which may even be a lesser quality job,
That's captured by the unemployment statistics, believe it or not. And those numbers are dropping, which is good.
The only things that matter are A) how many people are dropping out
People drop out because they retire. A lot of people, especially now with baby boomers retiring. Thus the raw number "how many people are dropping out" is not a useful statistic.
The only statistic s we have that tells us something are the number of people on welfare and the number of people dropping out.
Trump likes to criticize Obama for having a "welfare economy," but the truth is the number of people on welfare have been dropping as well. It's not a good number (although you wish it were) because it's affected by things like outreach efforts, encouraging eligible people to sign up.
Total number of jobs has increased almost monotonically. All unemployment measures have been dropping, with U3 near historic lows. Despite what Trump may want you to believe, times are good, and they are a result of things that happened during the Obama administration, not the Trump administration.
... because the men in suits who sign the cheques are really not going to go a bundle over something called Cockroach. No doubt it sounded amusing after a few beers on a friday night, but I'm struggling to think of any current IT products with a worse name.
Look up "Adobe" in Spanish.
According to RAE, it means bricks made out of clay (and sometimes straw). Soft mixed clay, sometimes with straw, molded in the form of a brick and dried in the air, which is used in the construction of various types of walls.
I would add that adobe is typically sun-dried, not just air-dried, but the point is that they are not fired.
It's still sharded, the sharding happens more automatically though. The question is how hard it is for programmers to avoid bugs while dealing with it conceptually.
The biggest innovation I see is that it does some kind of automatic sharding. Good comparison here.
A lot of the source code is written in Go, which is interesting and probably not a bad choice. The code is clean and easy enough to understand. Its primary weakness is poor organization, which is also the primary weakness of their documentation. Both would benefit from the concept of "topic sentence, supporting sentences," so when I approach and ask, "what are the most important points here?" the answer is immediately obvious.
Looking at alternative databases these days, you always need to evaluate them in terms of the CAP theorem. What do they give up? The website mentions several times that they are consistent. They are big on partitioning, so that isn't what they've given up, so they must have given up availability. They claim to have good survivability. It seems they can keep running even if one of the servers running a shard dies (they expect sharding based on geography), and they don't offer consistency for queries across shards.
It's an interesting approach, but given the name, if the idea's any good someone else will take the idea and win with a better name. Ebola is an easier sell.
Except that this time around there is nowhere to go
This is an argument from ignorance. Right now, jobs are being automated, every day. Those people are finding new jobs. You don't see how they are finding new jobs, so you assume they aren't.
We've had entire classes of jobs disappear in the last 30 years. We've had completely new jobs pop up in that time, and every time new automation comes, new jobs pop up.
Now, I think it would be great if AI replaced all our jobs, and we got a basic income in the six digit figures range, but that kind of technology is a long way from today.
You might add that it's very rare that any software company cares about security from corporate perspective. You can tell that they care when they give you extra time in a sprint to make sure things are secure.
Yes, actually it is, provably so.
You writing ability sucks, though, and I will give you help. Instead of just putting out insults, which you did, try something like this:
"Good sir, I quote you this sentence from the link, which apparently you missed. Here it is: "XXXXXXXX"
If say something like that, you won't look like a complete incompetent fool.
What brain drain are you talking about here? Have scientists been leaving America in droves to seek out better opportunities in other countries? You are the first person I've heard mention this.
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The original blogpost makes the following points:
1) Microsoft works hard, I tell you hard to avoid these problems.
2) Customers are to blame too! (really)
3) It's the government's fault!
They're trying to direct the conversation so they don't get all the blame. The reality is, if Microsoft hadn't made the flaw, then this attack never would have happened.
OK, so which jobs are being created?
That's a good question, and one you should answer before making grand conclusions like, "we are running out of jobs." The answer is very likely more boring than you wish it to be.
The counter-point is that the economy is a job creating machine. You're only seeing one side of the equation: jobs being lost. Your blind-spot is that you're not looking for jobs being created.
Did you know that "computer" used to be the job title for a human? They had rooms of people working, college educated people solving equations assembly-line style. Brain work has been replaced by automation for over half a century by now.
Why do you think there are so many civil wars over the world?
There aren't.
outdated, now it's:
yum install nsa-backdoor gchq-backdoor
Get with the times, neckbeard!
Send them to trade school. Things like that. You can make a lot of money painting houses, driving a tow-truck, or swinging a hammer.
You seem to be making the mistake that 'companies' are a monolithic, single entity. As you know, the vast majority of companies don't use H1-Bs at all, but a few vocal ones make a lot of noise.
If the current unemployment trend continues (and it should), then pretty soon as the unemployed labor pool empties out, wages are going to start rising. As that happens, people's salaries are going to go up, and everyone will say how great Trump is. Won't you like that so much?
It actually goes deeper......they are getting something they don't deserve that comes out of my paycheck in the form of taxes. If I get just as much free stuff as that guy, then it's all good.
Your graph stops at 1995. How is that supposed to mean anything?
So because there are some people finding a job, which may even be a lesser quality job,
That's captured by the unemployment statistics, believe it or not. And those numbers are dropping, which is good.
The only things that matter are A) how many people are dropping out
People drop out because they retire. A lot of people, especially now with baby boomers retiring. Thus the raw number "how many people are dropping out" is not a useful statistic.
The only statistic s we have that tells us something are the number of people on welfare and the number of people dropping out.
Trump likes to criticize Obama for having a "welfare economy," but the truth is the number of people on welfare have been dropping as well. It's not a good number (although you wish it were) because it's affected by things like outreach efforts, encouraging eligible people to sign up.
If AI happens, and we have computers that are smarter and more capable than humans, then it's perfectly reasonable that they will take all our jobs.
And no one turned down free money. The reason people hate communism is because of the downsides.
Why would you assume people are finding new jobs?
Total number of jobs has increased almost monotonically. All unemployment measures have been dropping, with U3 near historic lows. Despite what Trump may want you to believe, times are good, and they are a result of things that happened during the Obama administration, not the Trump administration.
... because the men in suits who sign the cheques are really not going to go a bundle over something called Cockroach. No doubt it sounded amusing after a few beers on a friday night, but I'm struggling to think of any current IT products with a worse name.
Look up "Adobe" in Spanish.
According to RAE, it means bricks made out of clay (and sometimes straw). Soft mixed clay, sometimes with straw, molded in the form of a brick and dried in the air, which is used in the construction of various types of walls.
I would add that adobe is typically sun-dried, not just air-dried, but the point is that they are not fired.
It's still sharded, the sharding happens more automatically though. The question is how hard it is for programmers to avoid bugs while dealing with it conceptually.
The biggest innovation I see is that it does some kind of automatic sharding. Good comparison here.
A lot of the source code is written in Go, which is interesting and probably not a bad choice. The code is clean and easy enough to understand. Its primary weakness is poor organization, which is also the primary weakness of their documentation. Both would benefit from the concept of "topic sentence, supporting sentences," so when I approach and ask, "what are the most important points here?" the answer is immediately obvious.
Looking at alternative databases these days, you always need to evaluate them in terms of the CAP theorem. What do they give up? The website mentions several times that they are consistent. They are big on partitioning, so that isn't what they've given up, so they must have given up availability. They claim to have good survivability. It seems they can keep running even if one of the servers running a shard dies (they expect sharding based on geography), and they don't offer consistency for queries across shards.
It's an interesting approach, but given the name, if the idea's any good someone else will take the idea and win with a better name. Ebola is an easier sell.
I dropped the link somehow. Thousands and thousands!
Track record of what? Please tell us how many times Microsoft's servers containing data have been breached and corporate data leaked?
This particular story is probably hyped up, but thousands and thousands and thousands. Canada looks good, though.
Except that this time around there is nowhere to go
This is an argument from ignorance. Right now, jobs are being automated, every day. Those people are finding new jobs. You don't see how they are finding new jobs, so you assume they aren't.
We've had entire classes of jobs disappear in the last 30 years. We've had completely new jobs pop up in that time, and every time new automation comes, new jobs pop up.
Now, I think it would be great if AI replaced all our jobs, and we got a basic income in the six digit figures range, but that kind of technology is a long way from today.
If you're making API calls with Javascript, those take bandwidth.
You might as well admit you don't have an argument about the damn dams. Because clearly you don't. You want to change the topic.
You might add that it's very rare that any software company cares about security from corporate perspective. You can tell that they care when they give you extra time in a sprint to make sure things are secure.
Yes, actually it is, provably so.
You writing ability sucks, though, and I will give you help. Instead of just putting out insults, which you did, try something like this:
"Good sir, I quote you this sentence from the link, which apparently you missed. Here it is: "XXXXXXXX"
If say something like that, you won't look like a complete incompetent fool.
Dear Friend,
Bittorrent won't work with dynamic content. Like this very slashdot page, which appears different to each (logged in) user.
the brain drain will only continue.
What brain drain are you talking about here? Have scientists been leaving America in droves to seek out better opportunities in other countries? You are the first person I've heard mention this.