Essentially there are two types of companies:
* Startups (etc) who want the best programmers and are willing to pay.
* Others who want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
In my experience the two types of companies are:
* Startups (etc) who want the best programmers and want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
* Others who want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
One of my friends (who now has a masters in CS) was asking me why his programming 101 course was so heavy on pointers when nearly everything in the 200+ range was taught using pointerless, or nearly pointerless, languages.
The reason, of course, is to figure out as early as possible which camp each student was in.
I would think that the reason was the same reason that we teach people to add before we teach them to use a calculator. After understanding the basics, one can make better use of the tools.
Unfortunately, most 4GLs (and even some 3GLs) obfuscate what is really going on in the background such that you either can't write efficiently or at least the effort involved would be ludicrous, so we end up with bloated monstrosities.
If i was hiring, I would probably discriminate as well. Yes, I know that people fresh out of college or with a few years under their belt might know some new technologies (probably not. Colleges usually lag technology), and might be willing to work long hours, but I know that somebody who is 40+ and has been working most of those years in the technical industry has already made many of the mistakes that a young person has yet to make and has figured out how to do things right and how to write code efficiently and using the proper tool and not the latest wizbang tool that isn't quite right for the job but looks great on a resume and everybody is constantly blathering about on the internet.
So yes, I would tend to discriminate in favor of the experienced individual, even though they are probably more expensive and won't work as many hours, I know I will get an overall better product out of them and in a shorter time frame.
I'm in total agreement with you. If Uber wants to claim to be a technology company then I am all about that. Just stop transporting people. Develop your smartphone app and your scheduling system and sell it to Yellow Cab, ABC Limo, whoever. Let the transportation companies deal with the regulations. It is what they have been doing for 100 years.
You do realize that being the Governor of Alaska is the equivalent of being a mayor in a mid size city.
From a population perspective maybe. From a geographical area that she was responsible for, it would be like being governor of about 1/3 of the states in the country. Population is not the only determination of how difficult it is to govern. Alaska deals with huge geographic area, climate, large numbers of small remote locations requiring infrastructure, political hotspots due to oil reserves, proximity to occasionally unfriendly nations and a host of other problems that the typical state government doesn't have to deal with.
Being in debt is not so bad if you are making more money from the borrowed money than your debt service is costing you. The reason debt became an evil word is because most Americans use debt to buy things that they can't afford to buy outright and that decrease in value. Debt used to buy a house is not evil debt (although it hasn't paid off well in the last 10 years or so.) Debt used to pay for a vacation because you can't afford the vacation without making payments on it, is bad debt. Debt used to buy a car is bad debt unless you already had the money to pay cash for it and chose to invest that money in something that earns you more than the car loan interest rate.
The established transportation service does *not* have to lobby. The relevant laws where established a long long time ago.
It is uber who must lobby, and it should do so *before* opening up business.
Not to mention, if they do lobby and manage to get the law changed such that they don't have to have insurance or be registered or have medallions, the same law would apply to the other transportation companies, so Uber STILL wouldn't have any advantage. They talk about being a tech company, but I don't see where they have any more tech than any other company. They have a mobile phone app and a scheduling system. Color me unimpressed. Plenty of other transportation companies have those as well and ALSO have insurance and the proper certifications.
I don't use IE or linux. Not sure where you get that information.
Yes, AVG has a free version (and a paid version) and that is all well and good, but just because it is free doesn't mean it should be allowed to clandestinely or deceptively install other software on my computer. As there are other similarly priced alternatives that do not install unwanted software on my computer, I installed the other software instead.
I don't think Avast had a Chrome bundle. AVG sure did and that is why I stopped using AVG. Either they offered me a choice, but didn't make it obvious, or just didn't give me a choice and just installed Chrome. Either way, I did not want Chrome installed and they installed it, so Chrome AND AVG got uninstalled.
the browserchoice bullshit in europe expired at the end of last year... so all non-microsoft browsers, like firefox, lost that free exposure... so no os default like windows, no pay-for-installs distribution like chrome, means firefox falls. not surprising
So from a capitalist perspective, Firefox is the number one browser, because Firefox is the most frequently chosen browser for people who on purpose install a particular browser.
Splendid, and you will pay the absurd amounts of money necessary to keep him shuttling between the courts, prison and probation for the rest of his life.
American justice -- the second biggest demonstration of the broken window fallacy since Operation Iraqi Freedom.
So what are the alternatives? Shoot him? Or set him free with a book of matches and some printer paper?
And we out here have zero idea of what his actual sentence will be. Yes, the max penalties for his felonies add up to 'years'. Will he actually get consecutive, max duration, penalty for each of them? Highly doubtful.
This, of course, depends on any past interaction with the legal system. If he is a repeat offender, then yes, he may well get the max. Otherwise, probably not.
If he has not history, he will probably be released on probation.
Better question: What kind of kid who at least *thinks* he might be capable of hacking the school's system wouldnt be aware of cloud storage/backup? Clearly setting a fire would do nothing to cloud stored data.
He must be the kind of student who took a high school computer class. Back in the stone age, when I took computers in high school, they taught you how to program (well, I already knew, but they taught SOME people how). Now, they teach people how to illegally download games, movies and music from the internet. After my stepson took the high school computer course and got an A, he had to ask me what program he should use to write a report on the computer. But he knows how get hold of movies that are still in theaters and get games for free.
What do you do for a livelihood if there are no jobs available? It's rather lay down and die or create a business serving the needs around you. If the only profitable needs are illegal...
Well, I don't have a job at the moment, but among all of the things that I am considering doing, selling drugs and robbing banks are not on the list. I'd sooner stand on a corner and beg.
lets just take more from the rich to gove to the pooor, that has worked so well in the past
It actually does work the exceedingly few times it's actually been done.
You know what the solution to poverty is? Money.
Yup, if we just took all of the money from the 1 percenters and shared it out equally, then everybody would get about $100k. Of course, that is a one time thing, because now the 1 percenters will be counted among the poor, and $100k is not going to help anybody out for long. It is less than 3 years of poverty level living.
It's still an insane amount of money per minute even if your math is right. First of all, he probably wasn't on for the whole month. And second, the highest you could possibly pay with AT&T is $0.42 per minute peak. It is $0.365 per minute off peak and $0.15 on weekends. It is less than that for in-state long distance. These rates are only possible if you have no long distance plan. I find it extremely unlikely that he would have a landline with no long distance plan, but even if he has no long distance plan, it would not be mathematically possible to get a $15,687 bill in only one month's time.
Assuming 31 days in the month and only 9 weekend days (9 is the minimum number of weekend days you can get in a 31 day month):
$5,781.60 off peak
$6,652.80 peak
$1,944.00 weekends
Total $14,378.40
Again, this is assuming he never lost connection for 24 hours a day for 30 days AND assuming he had no long distance plan AND assuming the number that he dialed was not in-state. So the phone bill is wrong assuming the worst of all possible situations, and since the worst situation is extremely unlikely, the phone bill is even MORE wrong.
Personally, I think AOL should share some responsibility, as they should indicate if a number is long distance. It should not be up to the consumer to know this, since sometimes AT&T charges long distance for phones with the same area code. I have had AT&T charge long distance for a town that is only 20 miles away by car.
The Boeing Screamliner -- the proud product of innovative Project Management in a Globalized Economy
I thought the name was the Dreamliner? Yup. It is, according to the Boeing website. No mention of it being called the screamliner. But you are right about it living up to it's name. No accidents or injuries have occurred on a 787 in all of it's years of service.
I have seen it happen all too often, an unrealistic development schedule is made to get the contract and as shit rolls down the schedule, QA takes the brunt of any deadlines problems. It's one thing if your developing software for insurance companies, it's another when it's aerospace.
Until recently I was the software QA Director for a software company. I completely agree with your assessment. My company used to pad in about a week for QA. I kept telling them, that it might take us a week to QA, but if we find any issues, then it will have to go back to development, and I can't speak for how long that would take. They really didn't like how i couldn't give them a solid date, but how could I speak for how long it would take another department to fix something?
At any rate, all of that was moot as development literally never got the project to me until the actual date it was due to the customer, and it would be broken and not meet the specs. I did what I could to try to get development on track so we could deliver a quality product to our customer, but in the end, my company grew tired of my efforts and fired the whole QA team, so now the product just goes straight to the customer, bugs and all. And late.
Always, always, always do the math on counters and give yourself orders of magnitude of space. Figured this out the hard way once (fortunately not in a situation where safety was a concern).
As far as I am concerned, there are three valid quantities in programming. Zero, one and unlimited.
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Essentially there are two types of companies: * Startups (etc) who want the best programmers and are willing to pay. * Others who want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
In my experience the two types of companies are:
* Startups (etc) who want the best programmers and want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
* Others who want to pay as little as possible to get the job done.
One of my friends (who now has a masters in CS) was asking me why his programming 101 course was so heavy on pointers when nearly everything in the 200+ range was taught using pointerless, or nearly pointerless, languages. The reason, of course, is to figure out as early as possible which camp each student was in.
I would think that the reason was the same reason that we teach people to add before we teach them to use a calculator. After understanding the basics, one can make better use of the tools.
Unfortunately, most 4GLs (and even some 3GLs) obfuscate what is really going on in the background such that you either can't write efficiently or at least the effort involved would be ludicrous, so we end up with bloated monstrosities.
If i was hiring, I would probably discriminate as well. Yes, I know that people fresh out of college or with a few years under their belt might know some new technologies (probably not. Colleges usually lag technology), and might be willing to work long hours, but I know that somebody who is 40+ and has been working most of those years in the technical industry has already made many of the mistakes that a young person has yet to make and has figured out how to do things right and how to write code efficiently and using the proper tool and not the latest wizbang tool that isn't quite right for the job but looks great on a resume and everybody is constantly blathering about on the internet.
So yes, I would tend to discriminate in favor of the experienced individual, even though they are probably more expensive and won't work as many hours, I know I will get an overall better product out of them and in a shorter time frame.
I'm in total agreement with you. If Uber wants to claim to be a technology company then I am all about that. Just stop transporting people. Develop your smartphone app and your scheduling system and sell it to Yellow Cab, ABC Limo, whoever. Let the transportation companies deal with the regulations. It is what they have been doing for 100 years.
You do realize that being the Governor of Alaska is the equivalent of being a mayor in a mid size city.
From a population perspective maybe. From a geographical area that she was responsible for, it would be like being governor of about 1/3 of the states in the country. Population is not the only determination of how difficult it is to govern. Alaska deals with huge geographic area, climate, large numbers of small remote locations requiring infrastructure, political hotspots due to oil reserves, proximity to occasionally unfriendly nations and a host of other problems that the typical state government doesn't have to deal with.
The country is 18 trillion dollars in debt.
Being in debt is not so bad if you are making more money from the borrowed money than your debt service is costing you. The reason debt became an evil word is because most Americans use debt to buy things that they can't afford to buy outright and that decrease in value. Debt used to buy a house is not evil debt (although it hasn't paid off well in the last 10 years or so.) Debt used to pay for a vacation because you can't afford the vacation without making payments on it, is bad debt. Debt used to buy a car is bad debt unless you already had the money to pay cash for it and chose to invest that money in something that earns you more than the car loan interest rate.
The established transportation service does *not* have to lobby. The relevant laws where established a long long time ago.
It is uber who must lobby, and it should do so *before* opening up business.
Not to mention, if they do lobby and manage to get the law changed such that they don't have to have insurance or be registered or have medallions, the same law would apply to the other transportation companies, so Uber STILL wouldn't have any advantage. They talk about being a tech company, but I don't see where they have any more tech than any other company. They have a mobile phone app and a scheduling system. Color me unimpressed. Plenty of other transportation companies have those as well and ALSO have insurance and the proper certifications.
Tesla must have some big bucks to fund four stories in only a week on the new Tesla Household battery,
And the poster was also Korean, as was the original V. Tech shooter. Yup, looks like something that should be taken seriously.
I don't use IE or linux. Not sure where you get that information.
Yes, AVG has a free version (and a paid version) and that is all well and good, but just because it is free doesn't mean it should be allowed to clandestinely or deceptively install other software on my computer. As there are other similarly priced alternatives that do not install unwanted software on my computer, I installed the other software instead.
Adblock Edge, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript.
That's all I want, and to not have the interface shift around every version.
And a menu bar on the top, please.
CSS defines 1px not as a hardware pixel but as 1/2688 of the distance from the eye to the display
I just tested this on my system and it didn't work. I backed off from the display about 5 feet and the font did not change at all.
I don't think Avast had a Chrome bundle. AVG sure did and that is why I stopped using AVG. Either they offered me a choice, but didn't make it obvious, or just didn't give me a choice and just installed Chrome. Either way, I did not want Chrome installed and they installed it, so Chrome AND AVG got uninstalled.
the browserchoice bullshit in europe expired at the end of last year... so all non-microsoft browsers, like firefox, lost that free exposure... so no os default like windows, no pay-for-installs distribution like chrome, means firefox falls. not surprising
So from a capitalist perspective, Firefox is the number one browser, because Firefox is the most frequently chosen browser for people who on purpose install a particular browser.
Splendid, and you will pay the absurd amounts of money necessary to keep him shuttling between the courts, prison and probation for the rest of his life.
American justice -- the second biggest demonstration of the broken window fallacy since Operation Iraqi Freedom.
So what are the alternatives? Shoot him? Or set him free with a book of matches and some printer paper?
And we out here have zero idea of what his actual sentence will be. Yes, the max penalties for his felonies add up to 'years'. Will he actually get consecutive, max duration, penalty for each of them? Highly doubtful. This, of course, depends on any past interaction with the legal system. If he is a repeat offender, then yes, he may well get the max. Otherwise, probably not.
If he has not history, he will probably be released on probation.
Better question: What kind of kid who at least *thinks* he might be capable of hacking the school's system wouldnt be aware of cloud storage/backup? Clearly setting a fire would do nothing to cloud stored data.
He must be the kind of student who took a high school computer class. Back in the stone age, when I took computers in high school, they taught you how to program (well, I already knew, but they taught SOME people how). Now, they teach people how to illegally download games, movies and music from the internet. After my stepson took the high school computer course and got an A, he had to ask me what program he should use to write a report on the computer. But he knows how get hold of movies that are still in theaters and get games for free.
What do you do for a livelihood if there are no jobs available? It's rather lay down and die or create a business serving the needs around you. If the only profitable needs are illegal...
Well, I don't have a job at the moment, but among all of the things that I am considering doing, selling drugs and robbing banks are not on the list. I'd sooner stand on a corner and beg.
lets just take more from the rich to gove to the pooor, that has worked so well in the past
It actually does work the exceedingly few times it's actually been done.
You know what the solution to poverty is? Money.
Yup, if we just took all of the money from the 1 percenters and shared it out equally, then everybody would get about $100k. Of course, that is a one time thing, because now the 1 percenters will be counted among the poor, and $100k is not going to help anybody out for long. It is less than 3 years of poverty level living.
Or is it the lack of jobs that cause people to fall back on illegal means of livelihood that is destroying American society?
I doubt that lack of jobs causes people to turn to illegal means of livelihood. In fact, I think the cause and effect are reversed in that statement.
It's still an insane amount of money per minute even if your math is right. First of all, he probably wasn't on for the whole month. And second, the highest you could possibly pay with AT&T is $0.42 per minute peak. It is $0.365 per minute off peak and $0.15 on weekends. It is less than that for in-state long distance. These rates are only possible if you have no long distance plan. I find it extremely unlikely that he would have a landline with no long distance plan, but even if he has no long distance plan, it would not be mathematically possible to get a $15,687 bill in only one month's time.
Assuming 31 days in the month and only 9 weekend days (9 is the minimum number of weekend days you can get in a 31 day month):
$5,781.60 off peak
$6,652.80 peak
$1,944.00 weekends
Total $14,378.40
Again, this is assuming he never lost connection for 24 hours a day for 30 days AND assuming he had no long distance plan AND assuming the number that he dialed was not in-state. So the phone bill is wrong assuming the worst of all possible situations, and since the worst situation is extremely unlikely, the phone bill is even MORE wrong.
Personally, I think AOL should share some responsibility, as they should indicate if a number is long distance. It should not be up to the consumer to know this, since sometimes AT&T charges long distance for phones with the same area code. I have had AT&T charge long distance for a town that is only 20 miles away by car.
The Boeing Screamliner -- the proud product of innovative Project Management in a Globalized Economy
I thought the name was the Dreamliner? Yup. It is, according to the Boeing website. No mention of it being called the screamliner. But you are right about it living up to it's name. No accidents or injuries have occurred on a 787 in all of it's years of service.
I have seen it happen all too often, an unrealistic development schedule is made to get the contract and as shit rolls down the schedule, QA takes the brunt of any deadlines problems. It's one thing if your developing software for insurance companies, it's another when it's aerospace.
Until recently I was the software QA Director for a software company. I completely agree with your assessment. My company used to pad in about a week for QA. I kept telling them, that it might take us a week to QA, but if we find any issues, then it will have to go back to development, and I can't speak for how long that would take. They really didn't like how i couldn't give them a solid date, but how could I speak for how long it would take another department to fix something?
At any rate, all of that was moot as development literally never got the project to me until the actual date it was due to the customer, and it would be broken and not meet the specs. I did what I could to try to get development on track so we could deliver a quality product to our customer, but in the end, my company grew tired of my efforts and fired the whole QA team, so now the product just goes straight to the customer, bugs and all. And late.
Always, always, always do the math on counters and give yourself orders of magnitude of space. Figured this out the hard way once (fortunately not in a situation where safety was a concern).
As far as I am concerned, there are three valid quantities in programming. Zero, one and unlimited.
Visa number are only 8 digits , so a SSN would not fit.