No, companies and startups need to start to learn how large companies develop products.
We don't come up with an idea and then make 100,000 of them.
We make 1. Work it until it breaks.
Figure out what went wrong.
Then we make 100. And we break all of them again.
Along the way we figure out our certifications, tooling, suppliers, quality control, end pricing, and all the other issues Kickstarters run into.
I want a crowdsourcing/funding site that stages the release of money to follow the proper way to release a product.
Build 50 prototypes. Send it to 'developers'. Garner feedback.
Build 500 prototypes. Send it to 'early adopters'. Garner feedback.
Repeat until there's a shippable.
Round 1 buyers will want it enough they'll pay the premium. Take pre-orders for the final conceptualized product from the beginning. Don't release those funds until it's ready for an actual pre-order.
Hell put them in a mutual fund and turn it into a 'savings' account for people that can't seem to save money. A majority of Americans don't have $500 in savings but I would bet more would if you add in failed crowd funding campaigns. If the campaign fails you just have money in a mutual fund or savings account; surprise you have something more than nothing.
Look up ISO 26262 & ASPICE and other things related to 'functional safety'.
Not everything in the vehicle is, or needs to be, compliant but your powertrain and anything with life and safety is. This isn't fly by the night programmers coding a Radio GUI.
This stuff goes all the way down to the hardware level. With dual core CPUs running in lock step, dual memory banks and ECC memory. If there's a mismatch anywhere along the line an error is thrown.
There are 4-8 week CNA Nursing Assistant courses available across the US. There are no less than 2 advertised on billboards on my way to work.
They also have engineering boot camps called "Welding & CNC training".
And both 4-8 week courses fill the same role in their industries as Bootcamps do for programming: Warm bodies to do tedious work.
If your MDs are doing the work that should be for the CNA or your engineers are doing work that should be for the CNC operator then you're doing it wrong.
Just like if you're using CS majors for bootcamp work, or vice versa, you're in for a world of pain.
We have enough CS majors at my company. Hiring more CS majors won't turn out product faster. However we could use a dozen more *programmers*. Someone that can take the high level architecture and implement it. The reason a lot of our internal tools are progressing so slowly is there's a handful of us working on them. I'd rather a HS dropout with some knowledge of Python to report back weekly how things are going.
Engineers and Architects don't insist on building their own buildings, why do CS majors insist on building their own code? Focus on your training, which is not the flavor of the week programming language.
We need more doctor's in this country
Some places. But a CNA, RN, and PA would go a lot farther in making most medicine less expensive and take the workload off of the MDs so they can concentrate on what they're trained to do.
Three weeks and you should be ready to perform open heart surgery
Nah, we're on our way to automating that. But we still need some CNA, RN and PAs around to assist the robot.
8 Week boot camps to a CS major are an 8 week CRN course to an MD.
They're different skillsets intended to fill a different role.
I wish I could change my corporate culture and hire a dozen GED Bootcamp graduates over funneling stuff over to India. At least when I get angry and swear about the code quality they'll clearly understand I'm not happy and be able to see my facial expressions.
It is changing at the local level. VocTech highschools have realized they fell behind the times and are quickly coming around. The local high school has an EE lab that makes me jealous and better than anything I had in college. They're diagnosing and fixing late model vehicles. One near my mom, on a big lake, fixes and repairs $100k+ boats. From the floaty bits to the electronics.
There are a ton of jobs out there and huge shortages in a lot of fields.
Any time I push into someone not being able to find a job it boils down to their wants coming before their needs. Grandpa didn't get much choice in the CCC where he worked. But it was a paycheck and the money helped back home.
If you show willingness to pickup a trade there are multiple companies in this area that are hiring. I know people with a GED that showed up a plumber's ad in the paper saying "I don't know anything about plumbing, I'll work hard, show up on time and pass a drug test" and they are now well on their way to a Union journeyman.
But jobs like that mean you have to leave Seattle and SanFrancisco for the 'uncultured' flyover states.
Our local VocTech highschool can't crank out CNC operators fast enough. The principal told me that most HS seniors not on the college track are getting hired at $20/hr before they graduate. We have a 8 week GED/CNC operator course where you can earn your GED, get a CNC cert AND a job in 3 nights a week. You just have to show that you have your life on track with no recent arrests and a character witness.
Hell truck drivers are in massive demand right now. I wouldn't bank on it for a long term career but if you need money can pass a CDL it'll get you to the next phase of your life. With enough money to do everything 'millenials' are complaining they can't get like a house and steady income.
I know multiple people that have taken this and similar paths to their career. The loudest millenials that seem to be pushing the 'there are no jobs' out there have lead a relatively easy life. They had few to no hardships growing up and now expect everything to be handed to them.
My wife and I are both old millenials. Both have advanced degrees, good jobs and have half jokingly talked about what would happen if we had to emigrate. Neither of us are above swinging a hammer or shoveling shit if it means food and a roof and have done both at some point in our lives.
Why are you storing that many at the warehouse? You need a small buffer to float demand, but for the most part once you have your regular customers the majority of your crates are going to be in-transit or with customers.
Dear Amazon WFoods, Walmart, Meijer, Kroger, et al.
If you want my money, bring back Milk Crates. All of the 'get groceries delivered' services I've seen use most inefficient process possible. The store pays people minimum wage on the night shift to unpack boxes and palates of food items, arrange them on a shelf so that I can pay someone else to take it off the shelf and deliver it to me.
Cut out the middle man. Pack a milk crate full of what I want in a central warehouse. Pay drives to drop them on my front door. Cut out the electricity, real estate and overhead of running a store. When my next shipment comes pick up my empty milk crates. That way I don't have to breakdown a dozen boxes a week for recycling.
Milk crates are the ultimate utility cargo container. You can fit a single one on the back of a bike. They stack well, you can strap a large number down to a trailer. The large transit vans will easily fit a neighborhood's worth of them. They're strong, light weight and in a pinch can be used to build a college dorm room.
Stores need to be a fraction of the size they are now. I went wandering to see what my local big box store had. DVDs and CDs had almost as much foot print as produce. I can't think of the last time anyone I knew *had* to go get Grownups 2 at 2 in the morning.
However my breadth of knowledge is what kept me employed through layoffs. Having an engineer that can be a technician is cheaper during crunch time than an engineer and a technician. Two is obviously better, but in a furlough the guillotine comes down where it does.
It also helps to make friends across different parts of the company. IT likes me because unlike most of my engineering peers I know the basics. It means when I ask for something done on the side I have a better chance of getting it.
Slashdot Mirror
Perfect testing ground.
Wouldn't it have just been simpler to create a honey pot that answered to the correct password?
What happened to the decade after 10 base T cable?
Nothing. I bought a new "Quicksilver Mac when I went away to college in 2001.
My dorm was one of the first to have Ethernet so it was the last to get upgraded. We only had 4xT1s for the whole campus so it didn't matter much.
We also had a Hub instead of a switch which means you could arp poison and 'listen in' on peoples traffic.
I almost always turn to google when trying to remember WTF the default settings are on a newly reset device like routers, modems, etc.
that no one is truly anonymous unless you simply don't ever post email, forum posts, or anything else online.
Write in simple English and run it through a translator. Chain a few together.
Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
Apple has always made its customers pay for high-end features that they did not want.
I agree. Back when I owned Macs it was sad to see how many features they forced down our throats.
First it was USB. They took away my awesome ADB, Modem and Printer ports.
Then they added Gigabit ethernet to all of their machines.
Finally they shoved out this thing they called 'Airport' back when I was happy dragging around my 10-BaseT ethernet cord around the dorm room.
People already have a working prototype. They built *one* or two. I haven't seen a product that has started from complete scratch.
You do 5 stall builds. You don't invest $1MM into tooling until you are *absolutely certain* that's what you want your product to look like.
No, companies and startups need to start to learn how large companies develop products.
We don't come up with an idea and then make 100,000 of them.
We make 1. Work it until it breaks.
Figure out what went wrong.
Then we make 100. And we break all of them again.
Along the way we figure out our certifications, tooling, suppliers, quality control, end pricing, and all the other issues Kickstarters run into.
I want a crowdsourcing/funding site that stages the release of money to follow the proper way to release a product.
Round 1 buyers will want it enough they'll pay the premium. Take pre-orders for the final conceptualized product from the beginning. Don't release those funds until it's ready for an actual pre-order.
Hell put them in a mutual fund and turn it into a 'savings' account for people that can't seem to save money. A majority of Americans don't have $500 in savings but I would bet more would if you add in failed crowd funding campaigns. If the campaign fails you just have money in a mutual fund or savings account; surprise you have something more than nothing.
How the hell is that computer board worth 10 months of Netflix?
How the hell is that spinny disk worth 10 months of Netflix?
How the hell is that 3D printer worth 30 months of Netflix?
People have different hobbies and interests. Do you have someone looking over your shoulder watching your spending habits?
Look up ISO 26262 & ASPICE and other things related to 'functional safety'.
Not everything in the vehicle is, or needs to be, compliant but your powertrain and anything with life and safety is. This isn't fly by the night programmers coding a Radio GUI.
This stuff goes all the way down to the hardware level. With dual core CPUs running in lock step, dual memory banks and ECC memory. If there's a mismatch anywhere along the line an error is thrown.
http://www.nxp.com/products/pr...
https://www.renesas.com/en-us/...
Or Ancestry's DNA test database.
"Looks like you share multiple alleles with these random people, would you like to introduce drama to your family tree?"
They have them.
There are 4-8 week CNA Nursing Assistant courses available across the US. There are no less than 2 advertised on billboards on my way to work.
They also have engineering boot camps called "Welding & CNC training".
And both 4-8 week courses fill the same role in their industries as Bootcamps do for programming: Warm bodies to do tedious work.
If your MDs are doing the work that should be for the CNA or your engineers are doing work that should be for the CNC operator then you're doing it wrong.
Just like if you're using CS majors for bootcamp work, or vice versa, you're in for a world of pain.
We have enough CS majors at my company. Hiring more CS majors won't turn out product faster. However we could use a dozen more *programmers*. Someone that can take the high level architecture and implement it. The reason a lot of our internal tools are progressing so slowly is there's a handful of us working on them. I'd rather a HS dropout with some knowledge of Python to report back weekly how things are going.
Engineers and Architects don't insist on building their own buildings, why do CS majors insist on building their own code? Focus on your training, which is not the flavor of the week programming language.
We need more doctor's in this country
Some places. But a CNA, RN, and PA would go a lot farther in making most medicine less expensive and take the workload off of the MDs so they can concentrate on what they're trained to do.
Three weeks and you should be ready to perform open heart surgery
Nah, we're on our way to automating that. But we still need some CNA, RN and PAs around to assist the robot.
8 Week boot camps to a CS major are an 8 week CRN course to an MD.
They're different skillsets intended to fill a different role.
I wish I could change my corporate culture and hire a dozen GED Bootcamp graduates over funneling stuff over to India. At least when I get angry and swear about the code quality they'll clearly understand I'm not happy and be able to see my facial expressions.
It is changing at the local level. VocTech highschools have realized they fell behind the times and are quickly coming around. The local high school has an EE lab that makes me jealous and better than anything I had in college. They're diagnosing and fixing late model vehicles. One near my mom, on a big lake, fixes and repairs $100k+ boats. From the floaty bits to the electronics.
There are a ton of jobs out there and huge shortages in a lot of fields.
Any time I push into someone not being able to find a job it boils down to their wants coming before their needs. Grandpa didn't get much choice in the CCC where he worked. But it was a paycheck and the money helped back home.
If you show willingness to pickup a trade there are multiple companies in this area that are hiring. I know people with a GED that showed up a plumber's ad in the paper saying "I don't know anything about plumbing, I'll work hard, show up on time and pass a drug test" and they are now well on their way to a Union journeyman.
But jobs like that mean you have to leave Seattle and SanFrancisco for the 'uncultured' flyover states.
Our local VocTech highschool can't crank out CNC operators fast enough. The principal told me that most HS seniors not on the college track are getting hired at $20/hr before they graduate. We have a 8 week GED/CNC operator course where you can earn your GED, get a CNC cert AND a job in 3 nights a week. You just have to show that you have your life on track with no recent arrests and a character witness.
Hell truck drivers are in massive demand right now. I wouldn't bank on it for a long term career but if you need money can pass a CDL it'll get you to the next phase of your life. With enough money to do everything 'millenials' are complaining they can't get like a house and steady income.
I know multiple people that have taken this and similar paths to their career. The loudest millenials that seem to be pushing the 'there are no jobs' out there have lead a relatively easy life. They had few to no hardships growing up and now expect everything to be handed to them.
My wife and I are both old millenials. Both have advanced degrees, good jobs and have half jokingly talked about what would happen if we had to emigrate. Neither of us are above swinging a hammer or shoveling shit if it means food and a roof and have done both at some point in our lives.
Why are you storing that many at the warehouse? You need a small buffer to float demand, but for the most part once you have your regular customers the majority of your crates are going to be in-transit or with customers.
Your food will cost less. You're paying for Walmart to keep the lights on, clear the parking lot of snow, etc.
I.e., "stores are selling things I don't want. They should stop." How about you go to stores that sell what you want, instead?
Go sit in the CD & DVD section and see how many people walk through there. It's a ghost town.
Dear Amazon WFoods, Walmart, Meijer, Kroger, et al.
If you want my money, bring back Milk Crates. All of the 'get groceries delivered' services I've seen use most inefficient process possible. The store pays people minimum wage on the night shift to unpack boxes and palates of food items, arrange them on a shelf so that I can pay someone else to take it off the shelf and deliver it to me.
Cut out the middle man. Pack a milk crate full of what I want in a central warehouse. Pay drives to drop them on my front door. Cut out the electricity, real estate and overhead of running a store. When my next shipment comes pick up my empty milk crates. That way I don't have to breakdown a dozen boxes a week for recycling.
Milk crates are the ultimate utility cargo container. You can fit a single one on the back of a bike. They stack well, you can strap a large number down to a trailer. The large transit vans will easily fit a neighborhood's worth of them. They're strong, light weight and in a pinch can be used to build a college dorm room.
Stores need to be a fraction of the size they are now. I went wandering to see what my local big box store had. DVDs and CDs had almost as much foot print as produce. I can't think of the last time anyone I knew *had* to go get Grownups 2 at 2 in the morning.
That's where it's headed, IMHO. Bitcoin as a 'currency' is getting unwieldy. Transaction times and fees are going up and a PITA for daily use.
Cash:Gold::???:Bitcoin
Go to some remote village and put a gold nugget, a gallon of water and a loaf of bread.
Value is about what you need at the moment.
Software development, for me, has only gotten more fun and exciting in the last few years. I just turned 35 this year.
Encrypt. Name it something memorable, but not something that is going to get a DMCA.
Upload. Enjoy 3 years of free off site backups distributed throughout the world.
HR departments don't. I got hired for one job.
However my breadth of knowledge is what kept me employed through layoffs. Having an engineer that can be a technician is cheaper during crunch time than an engineer and a technician. Two is obviously better, but in a furlough the guillotine comes down where it does.
It also helps to make friends across different parts of the company. IT likes me because unlike most of my engineering peers I know the basics. It means when I ask for something done on the side I have a better chance of getting it.