This. My wife and I were chatting to an Aussie couple in Copenhagen who were asking where they could get a taxi. I was about to suggest Uber as an option, but my wife pointed out to them, it's a 20 minute walk and the streets are pedestrianised the whole way. And if they don't want to walk, there's a bus every 5 minutes.
Not long ago getting public transport in a foreign location (even an English speaking one) could be a challenge. But with Google maps showing public transit it has become much more accessible.
They still went and got a taxi from a local hotel AFAIK.
That graph might be perfectly ok. All it shows is bugs outpacing fixes. But if the product has been expanded with more feature areas, each bringing more minor bugs but also a higher product surface area.
The best thing to do is probably to go down the list and close off the ones that won't be fixed. We know it's a bug but it's low impact and not worth fixing - at least be honest about it.
There's a commercial product called postbox. I don't use it, but I tried it a year ago and it seems to give a similar experience to thunderbird with a bit more polish https://www.postbox-inc.com/
So you guys woke me from the grave to discuss your thoughts on your IT business? I'm dead? I feel sick. What's going to happen when you're done with me? Can I go and see my family? This is horrible, I wish you'd left me in the ground.
Atom is but the latest in a chain of editors that do the same thing. It adds nothing new over the last cool. I try them all, then switch back to vim, which has all the same, if not more, capabilities and is installed everywhere.
If they want to reinvent the wheel why not a modern wrapper around Vim?
Can we not take each situation on it's merits, rather than throwing around sheep of various types? I feel ambiguous about Uber, I understand that government regulations are supposed to be for my protection. And yet Uber offers a better service. I think the regulations probably need an overhaul. I can't help but think that the furore is mostly sour grapes from a taxi industry that doesn't want to be challenged.
I moved from San Francisco area (Sonoma) to Copenhagen, Denmark, last year. In SF I never used public transport, there were only buses near where I lived and they were pretty sparse.
In Copenhagen I don't even own a car. I still live in the suburbs. There's a bus stop 3 minute walk from our house, or I can cycle 15 minutes to train station. While PT is a pain at times, it seems that there's nowhere here you cannot get to on it.
For kids and buying big stuff we've a cargo bike. For everything else, online shopping.
Which best practices do you follow that will prevent a resigning user from causing any damage (deliberately or not) in these last days of employment before his account is disabled?
Well in the case of the BBC that'd surely be a good thing. Paying for American content is just a waste of license payer money if it is available elsewhere. They should be using that money to produce original content.
They have the white bikes now, which I've used but they're quite pricey, and there's no bum replacement service. They do have electric motors and GPS, so I guess they're more aimed towards tourists than casual use.
skype (that requires installing a closed source binary from the evil empire), FaceTime (that only works on Apple hardware), Hangouts (that requires a Google account, and yes there are still people on the planet...) Other technologies exist but those are the most Grandma-friendly.
free.gotomeeting.com. I work with the guys who make it. It's more grandma friendly than any of the above, share a link, straight into the meeting.
Your post makes a lot of sense, but anecdotally is incorrect. I work for a large software company with a lot of Java developers. I know that many of them are entrenched, but it also seems that the majority (of the ones I've spoken to, pinch of salt) have tried out both Ruby and Node.js. The preference has been Node.js, and the term "right tool for the job" has even been used. i.e. Java backends with various small frontend services running on Node.
There is no battle though, that's just headline eyeball grabbing. I personally prefer working on Ruby projects, but nodejs is fine for some things.
Even still, in web development world, deep in-depth knowledge in anything will be outdated in few years' time as new technologies roll out
This just is not true. What new technologies are you expecting? Yes there is a lot of noise about Javascript frameworks, but they're all just Javascript (20 years old). Server side languages haven't shifted much. Most websites are database driven, so in depth knowledge of databases and SQL is unlikely to ever be outdated. Many of the problems to solve server side are concurrency related, hardly new.
Yes. My wife does a more important job than I do. I could write software for any company, and I could be replaced by any software engineer. Only she can be the stay at home mother to our children, any replacement would be different and probably detrimental.
My father died recently of a heart attack. He was mid-sixties and, apart from smoking, very healthy and active. Of course, nobody can say for sure it was the smoking that caused the heart attack, but it doesn't seem unlikely. His retirement years were his most happy and I'm sure he'd have swapped smoking for 10 more years of that. Not that I think he could have been able to stop, he tried to kick it in so many times, and the only thing that worked for him were the new drugs that became available year before he died.
It seems to me that the working years of your life are the least productive for many people. You're a replaceable cog in a replaceable money machine. Childhood, study and retirement are where it's at.
And what is productivity? Are you productive if you work in an office selling insurance? Or writing software used by people in other offices to support people in yet further offices? When we talk about leading a productive life we don't tend to think of that in terms of worker productivity. I don't know how that relates to the above posts, but it doesn't make me feel that happy.
We're all crap at it, with varying degrees of crapness in our specialized areas. I'm a terrible developer, the only upside to that is so are all my peers. I was just thinking today, I've got all these ideas on getting our internal test and deploy systems into a top notch state, but it took me all day to fix one problem with the search, I'll never get around to the other stuff, and when I do it'll be rubbish, hit a multitude of problems, take longer, be slower than expected, and then I'll have to maintain it.
I envy junior developers. They're twice as crap, but ignorant of that fact.
That only really makes sense if you're using loud music to say something. And to my mind what you're saying, very loudly, is: "we should really have some kind of law against annoying people with loud music".
Yes the bog standard chocolate in America is really bad. But you can get pretty good stuff too, most Whole Foods have more upmarket chocolate bars, some of which are pretty good. And there are independent places, in SF and Portland there were some pretty good ones. There was a Hotel Chocolat shop in Boston, but they were closing down when we visited, so I guess the market for really good stuff just isn't there... not the same way as in Europe, where the bog standard chocolate is pretty acceptable, and the good stuff better than the best in the USA. At least for my tastes.
And I recently found out about their IAM roles, which means that an EC2 instance can have it's own keys, that are automatically rotated, and available to any AWS-SDK you're running on the machine (or fetchable on a local IP). This is safer than passing keys, root or IAM user ones.
This is a very once sided view point. I prefer open plan offices, and so do all but one of my colleagues. I don't feel that the office layout is due to management either, but worker preference. If we wanted cubicles we could have them...
I couldn't agree more. FB is joyless. I've moved around the world a fair bit, and I've friends and family "thousands of miles away" who I don't need to communicate with on a day to day basis and read the minute of their lives. What do you talk about when you do get together?
Also, everyone does the same stuff anyway. Get together with someone, have kids, get married, buy a house, hop jobs. It could be anyones partner/kids/house, how would I even know? Until you're actually seeing them, it does not impact you, so you may as well keep the surprise.
The US is not really much less socialist than the rest of the developed world. It is setup differently, especially around health care. But percentage of GDP spent on welfare, it is well up there among the top European "socialist" countries.
In some areas the US has so overdone drab socialist like bureaucracy, it makes me laugh when American's try to distance themselves from it.
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This. My wife and I were chatting to an Aussie couple in Copenhagen who were asking where they could get a taxi. I was about to suggest Uber as an option, but my wife pointed out to them, it's a 20 minute walk and the streets are pedestrianised the whole way. And if they don't want to walk, there's a bus every 5 minutes.
Not long ago getting public transport in a foreign location (even an English speaking one) could be a challenge. But with Google maps showing public transit it has become much more accessible.
They still went and got a taxi from a local hotel AFAIK.
That graph might be perfectly ok. All it shows is bugs outpacing fixes. But if the product has been expanded with more feature areas, each bringing more minor bugs but also a higher product surface area.
The best thing to do is probably to go down the list and close off the ones that won't be fixed. We know it's a bug but it's low impact and not worth fixing - at least be honest about it.
There's a commercial product called postbox. I don't use it, but I tried it a year ago and it seems to give a similar experience to thunderbird with a bit more polish https://www.postbox-inc.com/
So you guys woke me from the grave to discuss your thoughts on your IT business? I'm dead? I feel sick. What's going to happen when you're done with me? Can I go and see my family? This is horrible, I wish you'd left me in the ground.
Atom is but the latest in a chain of editors that do the same thing. It adds nothing new over the last cool. I try them all, then switch back to vim, which has all the same, if not more, capabilities and is installed everywhere.
If they want to reinvent the wheel why not a modern wrapper around Vim?
Can we not take each situation on it's merits, rather than throwing around sheep of various types? I feel ambiguous about Uber, I understand that government regulations are supposed to be for my protection. And yet Uber offers a better service. I think the regulations probably need an overhaul. I can't help but think that the furore is mostly sour grapes from a taxi industry that doesn't want to be challenged.
I moved from San Francisco area (Sonoma) to Copenhagen, Denmark, last year. In SF I never used public transport, there were only buses near where I lived and they were pretty sparse.
In Copenhagen I don't even own a car. I still live in the suburbs. There's a bus stop 3 minute walk from our house, or I can cycle 15 minutes to train station. While PT is a pain at times, it seems that there's nowhere here you cannot get to on it.
For kids and buying big stuff we've a cargo bike. For everything else, online shopping.
Yes, if the attraction of McDonald's was so great that it pulled people towards it at a speed greater than the speed limit.
Which best practices do you follow that will prevent a resigning user from causing any damage (deliberately or not) in these last days of employment before his account is disabled?
Trust?
Well in the case of the BBC that'd surely be a good thing. Paying for American content is just a waste of license payer money if it is available elsewhere. They should be using that money to produce original content.
Was free. That system was abolished in 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
They have the white bikes now, which I've used but they're quite pricey, and there's no bum replacement service. They do have electric motors and GPS, so I guess they're more aimed towards tourists than casual use.
skype (that requires installing a closed source binary from the evil empire), FaceTime (that only works on Apple hardware), Hangouts (that requires a Google account, and yes there are still people on the planet...) Other technologies exist but those are the most Grandma-friendly.
free.gotomeeting.com. I work with the guys who make it. It's more grandma friendly than any of the above, share a link, straight into the meeting.
Your post makes a lot of sense, but anecdotally is incorrect. I work for a large software company with a lot of Java developers. I know that many of them are entrenched, but it also seems that the majority (of the ones I've spoken to, pinch of salt) have tried out both Ruby and Node.js. The preference has been Node.js, and the term "right tool for the job" has even been used. i.e. Java backends with various small frontend services running on Node.
There is no battle though, that's just headline eyeball grabbing. I personally prefer working on Ruby projects, but nodejs is fine for some things.
Even still, in web development world, deep in-depth knowledge in anything will be outdated in few years' time as new technologies roll out
This just is not true. What new technologies are you expecting? Yes there is a lot of noise about Javascript frameworks, but they're all just Javascript (20 years old). Server side languages haven't shifted much. Most websites are database driven, so in depth knowledge of databases and SQL is unlikely to ever be outdated. Many of the problems to solve server side are concurrency related, hardly new.
Yes. My wife does a more important job than I do. I could write software for any company, and I could be replaced by any software engineer. Only she can be the stay at home mother to our children, any replacement would be different and probably detrimental.
My father died recently of a heart attack. He was mid-sixties and, apart from smoking, very healthy and active. Of course, nobody can say for sure it was the smoking that caused the heart attack, but it doesn't seem unlikely. His retirement years were his most happy and I'm sure he'd have swapped smoking for 10 more years of that. Not that I think he could have been able to stop, he tried to kick it in so many times, and the only thing that worked for him were the new drugs that became available year before he died.
It seems to me that the working years of your life are the least productive for many people. You're a replaceable cog in a replaceable money machine. Childhood, study and retirement are where it's at.
And what is productivity? Are you productive if you work in an office selling insurance? Or writing software used by people in other offices to support people in yet further offices? When we talk about leading a productive life we don't tend to think of that in terms of worker productivity. I don't know how that relates to the above posts, but it doesn't make me feel that happy.
We're all crap at it, with varying degrees of crapness in our specialized areas. I'm a terrible developer, the only upside to that is so are all my peers. I was just thinking today, I've got all these ideas on getting our internal test and deploy systems into a top notch state, but it took me all day to fix one problem with the search, I'll never get around to the other stuff, and when I do it'll be rubbish, hit a multitude of problems, take longer, be slower than expected, and then I'll have to maintain it.
I envy junior developers. They're twice as crap, but ignorant of that fact.
That only really makes sense if you're using loud music to say something. And to my mind what you're saying, very loudly, is: "we should really have some kind of law against annoying people with loud music".
Use a static site generator. Gets you the best of both worlds. Jekyll is pretty good.
Yes the bog standard chocolate in America is really bad. But you can get pretty good stuff too, most Whole Foods have more upmarket chocolate bars, some of which are pretty good. And there are independent places, in SF and Portland there were some pretty good ones. There was a Hotel Chocolat shop in Boston, but they were closing down when we visited, so I guess the market for really good stuff just isn't there... not the same way as in Europe, where the bog standard chocolate is pretty acceptable, and the good stuff better than the best in the USA. At least for my tastes.
And I recently found out about their IAM roles, which means that an EC2 instance can have it's own keys, that are automatically rotated, and available to any AWS-SDK you're running on the machine (or fetchable on a local IP). This is safer than passing keys, root or IAM user ones.
This is a very once sided view point. I prefer open plan offices, and so do all but one of my colleagues. I don't feel that the office layout is due to management either, but worker preference. If we wanted cubicles we could have them...
I couldn't agree more. FB is joyless. I've moved around the world a fair bit, and I've friends and family "thousands of miles away" who I don't need to communicate with on a day to day basis and read the minute of their lives. What do you talk about when you do get together?
Also, everyone does the same stuff anyway. Get together with someone, have kids, get married, buy a house, hop jobs. It could be anyones partner/kids/house, how would I even know? Until you're actually seeing them, it does not impact you, so you may as well keep the surprise.
We're so weird about planes. If the local bus company got a new bus we wouldn't be rushing down for a demo ride.
Airlines have an interest I'm sure, as the service does effect who I'd travel with. Bit that is only one ends to a means.
The US is not really much less socialist than the rest of the developed world. It is setup differently, especially around health care. But percentage of GDP spent on welfare, it is well up there among the top European "socialist" countries.
In some areas the US has so overdone drab socialist like bureaucracy, it makes me laugh when American's try to distance themselves from it.