I used to think that IBMs block chain offerings were trash, and just a marketing name for "cryptography" or "public key signing" or even just "asset tracking." Now I see they are large enough to convince banks to play along with their game, and that gives their coin clout where others have failed.
Now you know why Irish Spring soap is so strong! Never leave home without it! Eat two bars before entering a hospital just to be safe! Always wash your hands with hand sanitizer.
And Elastic Search is a neat concept but implemented in Java. I'm pretty sure a good team would need only a few weeks to redo ES in some binary PL and some project that does all ES does but better, faster, cheaper and with less setup hassle.
The cool thing about Elastic is all the tooling around it, like Kibana. It's nice for things like logging, and I recommend it over Splunk.
Unfortunately, I traded my health for a paycheck. My knees are shot, and I have arthritis in my hands (not too bad yet, but still).
It might make you feel better (or not) to know that working in a cubicle or whatever wouldn't have necessarily kept you healthy. I knew a guy in his 30s who couldn't sit a full day, had horrible hand pain, etc. So at least you don't have to blame your job choice for poor health. It's just how it goes.
Whether you like or hate systemd, it must be a pain to deal with all the drama and hate surrounding it when all you want to do is put out a decent distro. I am sure there are people saying, "You don't install systemd on the bios in Debian? Dumbasses!" Who wants to deal with that kind of negativity?
So here I sit waiting for some insightful commentary, 'cause damned if I know the answer.
Another way of looking at it is, "in a civilized society, no one should have to have a job as lousy as a ditch digger." (On the other hand there is surely something enjoyable about working outside digging ditches instead of getting stick behind a desk).
The assembly code he wrote was always nice and compact and efficient as well, very admirable for the time. He never really broke out of that "microprocessor efficiency" mode, though. When the rest of the world was thinking about reusability and interfaces, Microsoft was still writing code optimized for a 1 megahertz processor.
Also, people with much more in the way of business skills did not get as rich as Bill Gates. The amount of luck involved with Bill Gates is so huge it dwarfs the amount of skills involved. Right place, right time, just barely enough skill to pull it off. Had IBM not been looking for a version of DOS at that time, Microsoft would essentially be in the same boat as the hundreds of other small microcomputer businesses.
There was quite a bit of luck involved, I readily agree. However, ripping IBMs OS away from them also took quite a bit of skill. IBM wasn't known for being weak.
For every Theranos that gets caught there are a hundred more that don't and who later get bought out (and the subsidiary later shut down) or the founders cash out and leave before being caught. Sometimes the startup founders had merit, but I have seen cases where they were also incompetent but managed to fake it long enough to get the payout; no technical know-how, no business acumen, the only skill they had was in schmoozing the right people.
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If all jobs were honey and roses, you'd never leave them.
I think that's ok.
I used to think that IBMs block chain offerings were trash, and just a marketing name for "cryptography" or "public key signing" or even just "asset tracking." Now I see they are large enough to convince banks to play along with their game, and that gives their coin clout where others have failed.
How do you know Abel was good?
alternate headline: "Assassins pay BBC to find address of ransomware expert."
Now you know why Irish Spring soap is so strong! Never leave home without it! Eat two bars before entering a hospital just to be safe! Always wash your hands with hand sanitizer.
Microsoft has NEVER been trustworthy or not to be feared. Amazon might not have started that way,
Amazon was patenting "One Click" back in the 90s. Now I know some people will say "that was not obvious," but it was obvious.
See, I read both the paper
No, you didn't. You've said nothing insightful about it.
Might want to look at IBM cloud, too. I would trust it over Google cloud.
Actually I highly doubt there's any drama what so ever.
Really?
And Elastic Search is a neat concept but implemented in Java. I'm pretty sure a good team would need only a few weeks to redo ES in some binary PL and some project that does all ES does but better, faster, cheaper and with less setup hassle.
The cool thing about Elastic is all the tooling around it, like Kibana. It's nice for things like logging, and I recommend it over Splunk.
Work is still work.
Unfortunately, I traded my health for a paycheck. My knees are shot, and I have arthritis in my hands (not too bad yet, but still).
It might make you feel better (or not) to know that working in a cubicle or whatever wouldn't have necessarily kept you healthy. I knew a guy in his 30s who couldn't sit a full day, had horrible hand pain, etc. So at least you don't have to blame your job choice for poor health. It's just how it goes.
It's still shitty work where you have to get your hands dirty regularly, often in shitty weather
Some people like that, I don't know if he does, but I'd rather have that than a cubicle/open office.
Look at the UID. It's a brand new troll account.
While it's not UBI many European countries have something like a "last resort" social security.
The US has that, too.
One dude buying a $1b island doesn't fire the economy like 500m people spending $2 on something
How do you know that? Do you have data or is it just hypothesizing?
Whether you like or hate systemd, it must be a pain to deal with all the drama and hate surrounding it when all you want to do is put out a decent distro. I am sure there are people saying, "You don't install systemd on the bios in Debian? Dumbasses!" Who wants to deal with that kind of negativity?
So here I sit waiting for some insightful commentary, 'cause damned if I know the answer.
Another way of looking at it is, "in a civilized society, no one should have to have a job as lousy as a ditch digger." (On the other hand there is surely something enjoyable about working outside digging ditches instead of getting stick behind a desk).
The assembly code he wrote was always nice and compact and efficient as well, very admirable for the time. He never really broke out of that "microprocessor efficiency" mode, though. When the rest of the world was thinking about reusability and interfaces, Microsoft was still writing code optimized for a 1 megahertz processor.
Also, people with much more in the way of business skills did not get as rich as Bill Gates. The amount of luck involved with Bill Gates is so huge it dwarfs the amount of skills involved. Right place, right time, just barely enough skill to pull it off. Had IBM not been looking for a version of DOS at that time, Microsoft would essentially be in the same boat as the hundreds of other small microcomputer businesses.
There was quite a bit of luck involved, I readily agree. However, ripping IBMs OS away from them also took quite a bit of skill. IBM wasn't known for being weak.
For every Theranos that gets caught there are a hundred more that don't and who later get bought out (and the subsidiary later shut down) or the founders cash out and leave before being caught. Sometimes the startup founders had merit, but I have seen cases where they were also incompetent but managed to fake it long enough to get the payout; no technical know-how, no business acumen, the only skill they had was in schmoozing the right people.
What startups are you talking about?
I think most people would rather operate a backhoe than a shovel, but really you're just arguing about the definition of the word 'easier'
Maybe it's just me but I find the vague and nebulous "popular" articles to be confusing and hard to read.
Maybe because the reporters don't understand what they are writing about.
And in the UK, doctors are amputating the wrong leg of patients. Medicine sucks and we don't have a solution for it.
You could read the report.
Good question, ditch diggers can get paid a lot.