Really? ADSL was available in pretty much any "town". Satellite or fixed wireless if you were rural. I remember tripping around the South Island in 2008 and 2009 without any issues getting internet in the campgrounds I stayed in.
The reality is, code is the collective memory of a programmer. Most software devs always keep copies of their work, usually not to resell or reuse (you can't and shouldn't, unless you're an idiot and want to end up like this guy), but more as a reference (How did I do that? I had an example somewhere).
Really?
I don't have a copy of the software I worked on at my last two employers and would consider taking a copy before I left a gross breach of trust.
I have a copy of work I've done while self-employed, as I can't expect non-technical customers to carefully look after their source code.
Yes, we're all bots. Dice took "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" as inspiration. I woke up in the shed one morning, crawled out of my pelican case, and began searching Slashdot for mentions of low UIDs.
Niggle: that ubiquiti gear won't be Wimax. It uses standard Wifi chips and proprietary drivers to do point to multipoint TDMA. This approach was pioneered by Mikrotik and there are now quite a few vendors with similar systems.
The gear is now fantastically cheap. You can get outdoor units with radio, antenna all in one for under 100USD. Posted by PoE. Runs in the same unlicensed spectrum as normal wifi.
I've had advice here (New Zealand) that the more egregious the non-compete clause, the better, as if it went to employment court the clause would be struck out entirely. After that I stopped complaining about stupid employment contracts.
That's all well and good, but by the standard of historical documents from the same time period, the New Testament is pretty darn good. The Gospels were all written within 60 years of Jesus' death. There were eyewitnesses around to say "that's not what I saw!"
Other historians of the time (e.g. Josephus) corroborate Jesus' existence.
If you're going to pick a fight with a 2000 year old religion, don't embarrass yourself with the "it was all made up" and "Jesus didn't exist" arguments.
Well, maybe actually having one of these "country" things costs money, and expecting its citizens to pay for this isn't a completely crazy idea. You can't start raising an army after the invaders have arrived. Well, you can, but it's not going to be too successful.
And then maybe poor people dying in the streets because they can't afford private healthcare turns out to be something that people with any kind of empathy at all would say was a bad thing.
And a few steps later, you're not too far off the status quo in most of the first world.
If you're willing to argue that the "poor people dying or being extremely sick because they can't afford to go to the doctor" is a good thing if it means you get to hoard your wealth, then... as I said earlier, *sigh*.
Collectivism! Socialism! Reds under the beds! Yes, folks, those problems and more besides can be solved by radical individualism and its close friend, laissez-faire capitalism!
Sure, some people will be free to starve, others will be free to die of preventable illnesses, but at least your freedom to amass wealth and keep it all to yourself will be safe.
You don't have to write your entire application in the C preprocessor. Or in templates. Although if you are coming from a language like Perl I can see how they might be attractive.
Yeah, great idea, let's take a language whose roots are in the 1970s and break backwards compatibility to increase its appeal to young people with six digit slashdot IDs.
If C++ looks bloated to you, (a) define bloat and (b) name some languages you have used, that you consider not-bloated. Good answers are available to both questions; I want you know yours.
As a tourist from New Zealand, the toll booths are my overriding memory of Orlando. Well, that and the Kennedy Space Centre.
The really fun thing to do is drive from the wrong airport to the right one, running late for a direct flight to SF (and then across the Pacific, home - not a flight you want to miss). By the third or fourth toll booth I was flinging correct change at the attendants.
They were neat little machines. I was still using one in 2001, running Linux.
The easiest option is to use a null modem cable between the two PCs serial ports. For a file transfer app, I recommend Filelink which came with DR-DOS and therefore will be on the install disks for OpenDOS which you can download for free these days.
You only need it on one PC, it can bootstrap itself over the null modem cable.
The other option is to get a 2.5" IDE to USB adapter. You can get ones that do SATA too and will be useful in other situations in the future.
Google Fibre, like every other ISP, will at some point have to monitor some subscribers traffic to debug network faults and the like. They're being upfront about it, that's all. If you want an ISP who never runs tcpdump, good luck to you.
Totally agree. At some point your product needs to be built, your systems need to be administered, etc. If your product can only be built by the top 5% of talent, your hiring pool is much smaller. If you can't hire those people, your product won't be built. There is wisdom in trying to not be too clever.
Great idea (says me from not-the-USA). I suggest you massively slash your defence budget. This will solve your budget problems very quickly, and will probably improve your country's perception abroad.
In New Zealand, income from a job where you are an employee (most people) is handled by a system called PAYE (pay as you earn). It's automatically deducted from your pay.
Bank account interest is handled by RWT (residents witholding tax), automatically deducted from your interest. If you're not in the top tax bracket you need to tell your bank, or they will overtax you.
Every year you can, if you wish, ask for a "personal tax summary" which states income and tax. If you paid too much tax, e.g. if you took unpaid leave, said overpayment will automatically be refunded. If your RWT rate was wrong you can ask for a refund of that, too.
If you made donations you send in a form (1 page) with receipts, and get a refund.
If you're a small business/self employed/etc then yes, you have to work out how much tax you are supposed to pay. But most people aren't in that situation.
Isn't that what IT people do? Optimise for the common case?
In New Zealand most people don't need to file a tax return at all. If you ask the tax department they will send you a Personal Tax Summary which states what they think you earnt and paid in tax. If it says you paid too much they will automatically issue you with a refund.
The only paperwork I do for personal tax is to sent in my donation receipts to get a tax credit. I did this yesterday, took less than half an hour.
Price, availability, and community. What software (distros, etc) is available for this week's raspberry pi killer? What will be available in a year's time?
Slashdot Mirror
+1 I am also old and miss reveal codes.
Maybe we should train lawyers in LaTeX...
Really? ADSL was available in pretty much any "town". Satellite or fixed wireless if you were rural. I remember tripping around the South Island in 2008 and 2009 without any issues getting internet in the campgrounds I stayed in.
The reality is, code is the collective memory of a programmer. Most software devs always keep copies of their work, usually not to resell or reuse (you can't and shouldn't, unless you're an idiot and want to end up like this guy), but more as a reference (How did I do that? I had an example somewhere).
Really?
I don't have a copy of the software I worked on at my last two employers and would consider taking a copy before I left a gross breach of trust.
I have a copy of work I've done while self-employed, as I can't expect non-technical customers to carefully look after their source code.
Yes, we're all bots. Dice took "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" as inspiration. I woke up in the shed one morning, crawled out of my pelican case, and began searching Slashdot for mentions of low UIDs.
Niggle: that ubiquiti gear won't be Wimax. It uses standard Wifi chips and proprietary drivers to do point to multipoint TDMA. This approach was pioneered by Mikrotik and there are now quite a few vendors with similar systems.
The gear is now fantastically cheap. You can get outdoor units with radio, antenna all in one for under 100USD. Posted by PoE. Runs in the same unlicensed spectrum as normal wifi.
This is Slashdot. Why has no one pointed out how close to a power of two the number of irradiated workers is?
I've had advice here (New Zealand) that the more egregious the non-compete clause, the better, as if it went to employment court the clause would be struck out entirely. After that I stopped complaining about stupid employment contracts.
That's all well and good, but by the standard of historical documents from the same time period, the New Testament is pretty darn good. The Gospels were all written within 60 years of Jesus' death. There were eyewitnesses around to say "that's not what I saw!"
Other historians of the time (e.g. Josephus) corroborate Jesus' existence.
If you're going to pick a fight with a 2000 year old religion, don't embarrass yourself with the "it was all made up" and "Jesus didn't exist" arguments.
Well, maybe actually having one of these "country" things costs money, and expecting its citizens to pay for this isn't a completely crazy idea. You can't start raising an army after the invaders have arrived. Well, you can, but it's not going to be too successful.
And then maybe poor people dying in the streets because they can't afford private healthcare turns out to be something that people with any kind of empathy at all would say was a bad thing.
And a few steps later, you're not too far off the status quo in most of the first world.
If you're willing to argue that the "poor people dying or being extremely sick because they can't afford to go to the doctor" is a good thing if it means you get to hoard your wealth, then... as I said earlier, *sigh*.
Collectivism! Socialism! Reds under the beds! Yes, folks, those problems and more besides can be solved by radical individualism and its close friend, laissez-faire capitalism!
Sure, some people will be free to starve, others will be free to die of preventable illnesses, but at least your freedom to amass wealth and keep it all to yourself will be safe.
*sigh*
What if a dingo took your baby?
Maybe slashdot just has a long memory? Microsoft's rapprochement with the open source world is a pretty recent phenomenon...
Mikrotik appears to have its own GPL issues. And good luck getting OpenWRT to run on any of their recent devices :-(
You don't have to write your entire application in the C preprocessor. Or in templates. Although if you are coming from a language like Perl I can see how they might be attractive.
Yeah, great idea, let's take a language whose roots are in the 1970s and break backwards compatibility to increase its appeal to young people with six digit slashdot IDs.
If C++ looks bloated to you, (a) define bloat and (b) name some languages you have used, that you consider not-bloated. Good answers are available to both questions; I want you know yours.
As a tourist from New Zealand, the toll booths are my overriding memory of Orlando. Well, that and the Kennedy Space Centre.
The really fun thing to do is drive from the wrong airport to the right one, running late for a direct flight to SF (and then across the Pacific, home - not a flight you want to miss). By the third or fourth toll booth I was flinging correct change at the attendants.
They were neat little machines. I was still using one in 2001, running Linux.
The easiest option is to use a null modem cable between the two PCs serial ports. For a file transfer app, I recommend Filelink which came with DR-DOS and therefore will be on the install disks for OpenDOS which you can download for free these days.
You only need it on one PC, it can bootstrap itself over the null modem cable.
The other option is to get a 2.5" IDE to USB adapter. You can get ones that do SATA too and will be useful in other situations in the future.
Google Fibre, like every other ISP, will at some point have to monitor some subscribers traffic to debug network faults and the like. They're being upfront about it, that's all. If you want an ISP who never runs tcpdump, good luck to you.
Totally agree. At some point your product needs to be built, your systems need to be administered, etc. If your product can only be built by the top 5% of talent, your hiring pool is much smaller. If you can't hire those people, your product won't be built. There is wisdom in trying to not be too clever.
Great idea (says me from not-the-USA). I suggest you massively slash your defence budget. This will solve your budget problems very quickly, and will probably improve your country's perception abroad.
In New Zealand, income from a job where you are an employee (most people) is handled by a system called PAYE (pay as you earn). It's automatically deducted from your pay.
Bank account interest is handled by RWT (residents witholding tax), automatically deducted from your interest. If you're not in the top tax bracket you need to tell your bank, or they will overtax you.
Every year you can, if you wish, ask for a "personal tax summary" which states income and tax. If you paid too much tax, e.g. if you took unpaid leave, said overpayment will automatically be refunded. If your RWT rate was wrong you can ask for a refund of that, too.
If you made donations you send in a form (1 page) with receipts, and get a refund.
If you're a small business/self employed/etc then yes, you have to work out how much tax you are supposed to pay. But most people aren't in that situation.
Isn't that what IT people do? Optimise for the common case?
I'm having trouble working out if you're being sarcastic or genuinely uninformed.
Silly question, but is a company which tries very hard to pay no tax on its profits a "legitimate business" or a leech on society?
Yes, I know they do neat stuff, as do many other companies. Yes, many other large companies legally avoid taxes. They're leeches too.
Yours sincerely, someone who likes his tax-funded healthcare and education systems. [can you guess I'm not in the US?]
In New Zealand most people don't need to file a tax return at all. If you ask the tax department they will send you a Personal Tax Summary which states what they think you earnt and paid in tax. If it says you paid too much they will automatically issue you with a refund.
The only paperwork I do for personal tax is to sent in my donation receipts to get a tax credit. I did this yesterday, took less than half an hour.
Price, availability, and community. What software (distros, etc) is available for this week's raspberry pi killer? What will be available in a year's time?