Lets see, a computer with a sample rate of 1000 Hz always on, always watching 360 degrees or Grandma that hasn't had to renew her license since she started losing vision or a teenager trying to take a selfie.
I don't care if it takes twice as long to get anywhere (30 MPH max), as long as I can turn my brain off and do something else I'm happy.
Trump is also giving the closet racists a person to vote for. The KKK is still very much alive in parts of the country. (Look at how many local law enforcement officers Anonymous "De-Hooded".) Stormfront has 300,000 users.
I'm sure before Trump most of them begrudgingly voted for who ever had a "R" next to their name. But Trump is drawing those people out in droves. We can stop pretending that most of his supporters are level headed individuals that are voting for him on merit.
They could start those internship programs in highschool for students that showed interest. Getting hands on experience while taking courses at the local union^H^Hversity. And once they're done with their appren^H^H^H^H^H^H "internship" they can join together with each other and present a single front to the corporation to fight for rights. Maybe even pool their money for when they don't have a job. Brilliant idea.
Low to midlevel IT work doesn't need a college degree. It's a 21st century trade at this point and needs hands on training along with some course work (done at the local union hall). This is what high school students are learning these days. It's a 2 year career and technical education program designed for HS juniors and seniors who intend to pursue a career in IT.
As for all of the people that were laid off, after a decade or so in industry I have a pretty clear idea who these guys are. They're the ones content with doing things the 'old' way and refuse to learn something new. I am constantly writing scripts and tools to shave 5 or 10 minutes off of my day here or there. After a decade I've automated what used to take me half a day. My peers refuse to learn how to use them (Despite putting in extra time to document them to an 8th grade reading level). They're content spending a half of a day doing things the way we did them in 2005.
Given the opportunity I could replace most of them with a visa holder that I trained on my scripts that spent the rest of day doing new things. It's easy to look back 30 or 40 years and laugh at how everyone was doing it the 'hard way' without understanding that how we do things now is going to look the same way in 30 or 40 years. I'm already 10 years into
I wish I got a bonus for every time I heard "Nah, I already know VBA. Sure it takes me 5x longer than you to do something in Python, but I don't want to learn something new". If you aren't going into work every single day trying to replace or automate yourself, someone else is. Eventually that is going to catch up to you. It's also something that is not unique to IT. Engineering, medicine, farming, are all progressing with society. If you're someone that insists on doing something the 'old' way, society is ready to leave you behind.
When I was a fresh faced grad I was sympathetic to everyone being replaced. I was terrified that I was going to be replaced by a H1B a year or two into my job. Now a decade out I'm sympathetic to all of those being replaced's coworkers. The ones that have had to work with these guys for the last decade while trying to do more with less dealing with co-workers that refused to learn anything new. Most of these guys are the 21st century equivalent of switch board operators, punch card operators, and human computers
I'm surprised that they haven't just done away with the 'hard drive' as is. SSDs are just a bunch of chips. I'm thinking of a 1U server that is just a board populated with chips, a fiber interface and a powersupply. Treat the 1U server as a single unit.
When you start to add up hard drive casing, interface connectors, etc you end up wasting a lot of space for no reason. For the home user that only has 1-2 drives they make sense but for someone like Google that may have thousands of drives just jump up to the next standard unit and make that the 'storage device'.
That's exactly how civilization evolves. We got Reddit when people got fed up with Digg and made something new. We got BitTorrent when the RIAA forcefully closed Napster. We got tor and i2p when governments started to try and limit people's access to stuff.
The good news is I don't have to write my on GitHub alternative, multiple people already have. GitLab offers private repos for free. My FreeNAS machine has separate jails for Gogs, GitLab and gitolite. My VPS is running gitolite.
People are sitting and whining about GitHub when there are multiple valid alternatives, that's not 'evolving' civilization it's sitting and whining about a free service.
request the owner who is responsible to make it better.
Or you find a new 'owner' that already has stuff unbroken from the start.
Nowadays you can't offer constructive criticism without the blunt commentary
That's because 'kids these days' sit and whine non stop that the free services they're using aren't doing things the way they want them done. I followed the whole 'gamergate' for a while on some of their premises that I agree with but if you read/r/KotakuInAction it's 90% whining about Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or someone else 'censoring them' while they continue to use those services.
If you really hate how Twitter works or who they hire STOP USING THEM. Instead you somehow think it's better to sit around and bitch and moan that Twitter isn't doing things the way you want them done and that's somehow Twitter's fault. Any slashdot reader should be able to put together a microblogging service in a few hours.
The biggest argument I've seen against migrating away from GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, et al is "But everyone else is using them". Seriously? The most difficult reason you can't migrate services is "But my friends don't hang out there"? Whine harder about how "SJWers" are ruining all your things and see if it actually changes anything.
Life's hard, wear a helmet, find a new service that fits your needs but no one wants to sit and listen to you bitch.
The problem with the current incarnation of ads is that they follow you everywhere. I didn't realize how bad it was until I forgot to re-install all of my cookie blockers. Search for something on Amazon? See the ads in Facebook and Google. Search for something on Google? See ads for that everywhere else.
Ads used to be targeted to the user base of a website. The 'targeting' wasn't based on what I knew I already wanted but based on what I was interested in. I didn't mind some old ads because they were relevant to the site I was going to.
The fact that your company has food, period, is more than most people have. If you're really that hard up for food you eat during the day and fast at night.
The point wasn't that she didn't drive it. The point is that she had it. Millions of people earning 'near minimum wage' don't have the money for a personal vehicles.
She wanted the own apartment, car, lifestyle but wasn't willing to make sacrifices that most people living in the real world have to make every day. On top of that she has a degree that is worth less than the paper it was written on. She could have gone to a trade school and be earning $20-40/hr anywhere in the US.
Sorry if I don't feel sorry for her making terrible personal decisions.
If you want to call a decade+ old account a 'sock puppet' count me in as one.
She was complaining that she wasn't allowed to take company food home. She posted a sexual joke in response to Yelp's official Twitter account. She posted photos of herself with alcohol on the job.
She complained about not being able to make ends meet but didn't have a roommate and didn't live with her parents, despite them being in the area. She complained about the cost of public transportation while also having a private car.
She got a worthless degree, it's a shock that she had a job to begin with. Based on most of her writing it's a shock that she graduated with an English degree at all.
That is because things never come out of R&D int the tech world.
Well yes, other than than fax machines, synchronous-sound motion pictures, statistical process control, television, radio astronomy, stereo signals, speech synthesizer, electron diffraction, photovoltiac cell, the transistor, Hamming codes, the calculator, Karnaugh maps, transatlantic telephone cable, electronic music player, C, awk, telephone switching, 32-bit microprocessors, TTL, TDMA/CDMA, 56k modem, and electron lithography.
asked phone manufacturers LG, Samsung, and Sony and computer manufacturers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo (which also owns phone manufacturer Motorola) whether they agreed with the government or Apple in the unfolding legal battle.
None of them also make the OS, they're just the hardware guys. The FBI is asking for a software backdoor.
Your personal decisions affect your earning potentials. Women typically made different personal decisions than men. And I say this as a stay at home dad that has earned 80% of what my peers have because of my own personal decisions
Slashdot Mirror
"More to the point how are people going to grasp statistics without a good grasp of Calculus?"
You reframe the material it to the audience.
For a tech site Slashdot sure has its cluster of Luddites.
It's no wonder they're being replaced by H1Bs. I bet most guys here still want to use punch cards as well.
They wouldn't feel safe in a mechanical beast.
Lets see, a computer with a sample rate of 1000 Hz always on, always watching 360 degrees or Grandma that hasn't had to renew her license since she started losing vision or a teenager trying to take a selfie.
I don't care if it takes twice as long to get anywhere (30 MPH max), as long as I can turn my brain off and do something else I'm happy.
The "C" programming language, used in Linux, FreeBSD and Python, has been used to construct ________.
Really? OpenCV was used for something? I fail to see how this has any connection to the Mars rover.
Trump is also giving the closet racists a person to vote for. The KKK is still very much alive in parts of the country. (Look at how many local law enforcement officers Anonymous "De-Hooded".) Stormfront has 300,000 users.
I'm sure before Trump most of them begrudgingly voted for who ever had a "R" next to their name. But Trump is drawing those people out in droves. We can stop pretending that most of his supporters are level headed individuals that are voting for him on merit.
They could start those internship programs in highschool for students that showed interest. Getting hands on experience while taking courses at the local union^H^Hversity. And once they're done with their appren^H^H^H^H^H^H "internship" they can join together with each other and present a single front to the corporation to fight for rights. Maybe even pool their money for when they don't have a job. Brilliant idea.
Low to midlevel IT work doesn't need a college degree. It's a 21st century trade at this point and needs hands on training along with some course work (done at the local union hall). This is what high school students are learning these days. It's a 2 year career and technical education program designed for HS juniors and seniors who intend to pursue a career in IT.
As for all of the people that were laid off, after a decade or so in industry I have a pretty clear idea who these guys are. They're the ones content with doing things the 'old' way and refuse to learn something new. I am constantly writing scripts and tools to shave 5 or 10 minutes off of my day here or there. After a decade I've automated what used to take me half a day. My peers refuse to learn how to use them (Despite putting in extra time to document them to an 8th grade reading level). They're content spending a half of a day doing things the way we did them in 2005.
Given the opportunity I could replace most of them with a visa holder that I trained on my scripts that spent the rest of day doing new things. It's easy to look back 30 or 40 years and laugh at how everyone was doing it the 'hard way' without understanding that how we do things now is going to look the same way in 30 or 40 years. I'm already 10 years into
I wish I got a bonus for every time I heard "Nah, I already know VBA. Sure it takes me 5x longer than you to do something in Python, but I don't want to learn something new". If you aren't going into work every single day trying to replace or automate yourself, someone else is. Eventually that is going to catch up to you. It's also something that is not unique to IT. Engineering, medicine, farming, are all progressing with society. If you're someone that insists on doing something the 'old' way, society is ready to leave you behind.
When I was a fresh faced grad I was sympathetic to everyone being replaced. I was terrified that I was going to be replaced by a H1B a year or two into my job. Now a decade out I'm sympathetic to all of those being replaced's coworkers. The ones that have had to work with these guys for the last decade while trying to do more with less dealing with co-workers that refused to learn anything new. Most of these guys are the 21st century equivalent of switch board operators, punch card operators, and human computers
I'm surprised that they haven't just done away with the 'hard drive' as is. SSDs are just a bunch of chips. I'm thinking of a 1U server that is just a board populated with chips, a fiber interface and a powersupply. Treat the 1U server as a single unit.
When you start to add up hard drive casing, interface connectors, etc you end up wasting a lot of space for no reason. For the home user that only has 1-2 drives they make sense but for someone like Google that may have thousands of drives just jump up to the next standard unit and make that the 'storage device'.
That's not how civilization evolves.
That's exactly how civilization evolves. We got Reddit when people got fed up with Digg and made something new. We got BitTorrent when the RIAA forcefully closed Napster. We got tor and i2p when governments started to try and limit people's access to stuff.
The good news is I don't have to write my on GitHub alternative, multiple people already have. GitLab offers private repos for free. My FreeNAS machine has separate jails for Gogs, GitLab and gitolite. My VPS is running gitolite.
People are sitting and whining about GitHub when there are multiple valid alternatives, that's not 'evolving' civilization it's sitting and whining about a free service.
request the owner who is responsible to make it better.
Or you find a new 'owner' that already has stuff unbroken from the start.
Nowadays you can't offer constructive criticism without the blunt commentary
That's because 'kids these days' sit and whine non stop that the free services they're using aren't doing things the way they want them done. I followed the whole 'gamergate' for a while on some of their premises that I agree with but if you read /r/KotakuInAction it's 90% whining about Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or someone else 'censoring them' while they continue to use those services.
If you really hate how Twitter works or who they hire STOP USING THEM. Instead you somehow think it's better to sit around and bitch and moan that Twitter isn't doing things the way you want them done and that's somehow Twitter's fault. Any slashdot reader should be able to put together a microblogging service in a few hours.
The biggest argument I've seen against migrating away from GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, et al is "But everyone else is using them". Seriously? The most difficult reason you can't migrate services is "But my friends don't hang out there"? Whine harder about how "SJWers" are ruining all your things and see if it actually changes anything.
Life's hard, wear a helmet, find a new service that fits your needs but no one wants to sit and listen to you bitch.
Gogs is an open source self hosted alternative written in go.
Not sure how installing it locally is 'funding' anything.
So stop using them.
If you don't want to host:
Or if you're a slashdotter that knows how to self host:
"social justice movement" is a link to a PDF.
The problem with the current incarnation of ads is that they follow you everywhere. I didn't realize how bad it was until I forgot to re-install all of my cookie blockers. Search for something on Amazon? See the ads in Facebook and Google. Search for something on Google? See ads for that everywhere else.
Ads used to be targeted to the user base of a website. The 'targeting' wasn't based on what I knew I already wanted but based on what I was interested in. I didn't mind some old ads because they were relevant to the site I was going to.
If they paid with bitcoin /. would have lost their shit.
What exact regulations would 'a driver snapped' have covered?
And don't worry, Uber is working as fast as they can to replace the drivers.
A full beowulf cluster of those!
So basically you're saying that she should be forced to sell the car that she presumably already owned
YES. Many people would love an asset like a car to sell. I'd also like to know if she had cable. Something tells me she did.
If she was that good then why was she working for $9 less than the Bay Area average CSR?
That and a tech writing credential will get you a halfway decent job around here.
... Which is why she was working for Yelp?
The fact that your company has food, period, is more than most people have. If you're really that hard up for food you eat during the day and fast at night.
The point wasn't that she didn't drive it. The point is that she had it. Millions of people earning 'near minimum wage' don't have the money for a personal vehicles.
She wanted the own apartment, car, lifestyle but wasn't willing to make sacrifices that most people living in the real world have to make every day. On top of that she has a degree that is worth less than the paper it was written on. She could have gone to a trade school and be earning $20-40/hr anywhere in the US.
Sorry if I don't feel sorry for her making terrible personal decisions.
You alluded to the fact that any post that disagrees with you must be a sock puppet.
I asserted the age of my account to show that I was either not a sock puppet or a sock puppet playing the the ultra long game.
meritocracy
What is it with you people and that word?
If you want to call a decade+ old account a 'sock puppet' count me in as one.
She was complaining that she wasn't allowed to take company food home. She posted a sexual joke in response to Yelp's official Twitter account. She posted photos of herself with alcohol on the job.
She complained about not being able to make ends meet but didn't have a roommate and didn't live with her parents, despite them being in the area. She complained about the cost of public transportation while also having a private car.
She got a worthless degree, it's a shock that she had a job to begin with. Based on most of her writing it's a shock that she graduated with an English degree at all.
That assumes they only get hit once.
That is because things never come out of R&D int the tech world.
Well yes, other than than fax machines, synchronous-sound motion pictures, statistical process control, television, radio astronomy, stereo signals, speech synthesizer, electron diffraction, photovoltiac cell, the transistor, Hamming codes, the calculator, Karnaugh maps, transatlantic telephone cable, electronic music player, C, awk, telephone switching, 32-bit microprocessors, TTL, TDMA/CDMA, 56k modem, and electron lithography.
What have R&D companies ever done for the world?
So when are we going to start including ransomware into the total cost of ownership?
Have any technical articles been posted on what all of these 'servers' were running?
asked phone manufacturers LG, Samsung, and Sony and computer manufacturers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo (which also owns phone manufacturer Motorola) whether they agreed with the government or Apple in the unfolding legal battle.
None of them also make the OS, they're just the hardware guys. The FBI is asking for a software backdoor.
Google (those guys behind Android) has stood by Apple
It all comes down to personal decisions It has absolutely nothing to do with gender.
Your personal decisions affect your earning potentials. Women typically made different personal decisions than men. And I say this as a stay at home dad that has earned 80% of what my peers have because of my own personal decisions
Only $5k? I wish I could buy development tools for my workflow for that cheap.