Obvious jokes aside, I think I'd trade in my 9.7" for the 7" if it became an option. The higher density of the screen with the same specs and a smaller footprint just sounds like win to me. Seeing as I mainly use the iPad for reading, it looks like this could be the perfect size for an e-reader.
It really all depends on how much they want to drop the price, if at all. I certainly wouldn't pay the same amount all over again when I've got a perfectly acceptable, not quite as small device already.
Many companies feel that developers SHOULD be able to completely test their own code, and don't understand why it doesn't work that way. Not that they're correct....I'm just pointing it out.
Also, often-times effective QA teams are just as big as the dev teams, and employing that many people goes beyond "cheap" and into "prohibitive."
This is something that any decent developer gets better at with time too. Eventually you start thinking about more and more angles and anticipating all the ways that people will "attempt" to use your software.
It's just a retraining process where you have to learn to think like yourself...and like someone else.
A single number that can affect such disaster and allow such a level of control over the finances/life of a person should never exist in the first place.
Anyone read the Jump 225 Trilogy by David Louis Edelman? This garbage sounds like a page right out of those books... The govt needs to keep their mouths shut and their hands off before they end up looking even stupider than they already do. Information wants to be free. If wikileaks dies, it's not like something else won't come up to replace it.
This whole thing sounds like nature taking care of the weak links. While it's sad that someone died, it's nearly unfathomable that they would engage in such a competition in the first place. 284F? Srsly?
Yeah, this is the only way to go, imho. Find a hole and fill it on your own time. Best way to learn.
By the way, if you're looking for something more on the lucrative side of things, I kinda look at it like this:
PHP (my forte) has such a low barrier of entry that the market is flooded with people who THINK they know PHP. There are TONS of worthless PHP programmers out there, and it hurts not only the reputation of the language but also the salary ranges because no one trusts that many of them are all that good (probably rightfully so). You may find a team out there with a real job to do that truly values what a good PHP programmer can do (and will pay in the high 80s, 90s, or sometimes even over 100k/yr), but most shops just want to shell out 30-40k/yr to some schmuck trolling away on Joomla modules (no offense, Joomla fans)..NET in general (esp C#) tends to pay better than what you'd find with PHP.
Java is gaining in the pay scale from what I hear. I've heard about a lot of decent Java programmers landing 150k+ jobs or on the rare occasion 250k+ because it's not as popular with the young programmers these days, but it's still in a lot of demand due to the maintenance and continued development of Java apps that are out there.
Objective-C may end up being pretty lucrative as well given the ridiculously huge demand for it right now. I can't speak much on it because I don't actually personally know any programmers who write i-Apps.
I, for one, would never enter a job "expecting" a bonus that wasn't inked with mine and my superior's signatures. "Discretionary" generally means "non-existent."
If he was promised "discretionary" bonuses, that's like saying "I promise you I'll give you a bonus...unless I don't actually give you a bonus."
These guys need to keep their mouths shut, accept what the contract says, and quietly find a new job. Griping publicly about this only makes them look like a pile of ill-informed, ignorant babies.
No one ever said the managers would "accept" the blame, but who do you think is going to get fired? In the "real world," upper management persons are rolled through like crazy. The second something doesn't go right, managers are replaced without a second thought. It's a lot easier to replace a single "leader" than the 20 people under him when things don't go right. There are the rare occurrences when it's actually the staff's fault, but generally speaking when there's a departmental failure, the fault lies with the management.
The sad stuff comes when the fault lies with unreasonable, or flat ridiculous, expectations placed by the "upper-upper" management, and then they endlessly roll through manager after manager when it's actually the "VP's" fault or some-such.
The cost of living in silicon valley and other areas of CA is twice that (or more) than most other places in the US. Making 60 in SV is like making 30 anywhere else...
Yeah, when something breaks, who is going to take the blame? The programmer or the manager he reports to? In the business world, it's ALWAYS the manager. A manager is *responsible* for the activities of all those below him.
He deserves no more than he agreed to when he started employment. If He agreed to 150k, and there were no provisions for profit sharing, bonuses, or raises, that's HIS problem. If he respectfully requests a raise and doesn't get it, he can feel free to move to another employer who WILL give him what he "deserves," which is exactly what happened.
The fact remains though, that if he hadn't scored this "low paying" gig in the first place, the lack of experience may have easily kept him from scoring the higher paying gig later.
You can't complain about a salary that YOU agreed to. All you can do is move on and find someone who pays you want you want.
What if he's on a team with hundreds of other programmers and paying all "hundreds" of them way more than that is not an option? It's not as simple as you're making it out to be.
I remember cliffyb saying last year that the average salary for a programmer on a game-team was somewhere around 40-60k/yr. I'd say in the programming industry that's probably a pretty standard salary across the board.
If you're complaining about a salary of 150k/year as a programmer, you need to check yourself. That's a highly unusual salary for any programmer and I kinda doubt that positions like that are going to last in the long term.
I'm an independent geek by definition. I'm not particularly wealthy. I'm certainly not an elitist.
I've gotta say...the fact that this is on the front page of slashdot seriously degrades my opinion of the site. What in the world were the eds thinking?
Some people who own houses are selfish elites. Some people who drive cars are selfish elites. Where are the posts about them?
I'm less concerned with the prices dropping and more concerned with passing more of the benefit straight to the person who deserves it. Publishers, in general, are simply too greedy and controlling.
You gotta wonder what they perceived the benefit was of putting this "functionality" in place. I can't think of a single thing they gain by doing this...
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Obvious jokes aside, I think I'd trade in my 9.7" for the 7" if it became an option. The higher density of the screen with the same specs and a smaller footprint just sounds like win to me. Seeing as I mainly use the iPad for reading, it looks like this could be the perfect size for an e-reader.
It really all depends on how much they want to drop the price, if at all. I certainly wouldn't pay the same amount all over again when I've got a perfectly acceptable, not quite as small device already.
Lucky for you, your initial reply made it seem like you were right on the same page with him. :-P I even smiled!
Some would argue that you should write the tests BEFORE you write the code. :-P
I wouldn't say "cheap" so much as "ignorant."
Many companies feel that developers SHOULD be able to completely test their own code, and don't understand why it doesn't work that way. Not that they're correct....I'm just pointing it out.
Also, often-times effective QA teams are just as big as the dev teams, and employing that many people goes beyond "cheap" and into "prohibitive."
This is something that any decent developer gets better at with time too. Eventually you start thinking about more and more angles and anticipating all the ways that people will "attempt" to use your software.
It's just a retraining process where you have to learn to think like yourself...and like someone else.
A single number that can affect such disaster and allow such a level of control over the finances/life of a person should never exist in the first place.
Anyone read the Jump 225 Trilogy by David Louis Edelman? This garbage sounds like a page right out of those books... The govt needs to keep their mouths shut and their hands off before they end up looking even stupider than they already do. Information wants to be free. If wikileaks dies, it's not like something else won't come up to replace it.
This whole thing sounds like nature taking care of the weak links. While it's sad that someone died, it's nearly unfathomable that they would engage in such a competition in the first place. 284F? Srsly?
Yeah, this is the only way to go, imho. Find a hole and fill it on your own time. Best way to learn.
By the way, if you're looking for something more on the lucrative side of things, I kinda look at it like this:
PHP (my forte) has such a low barrier of entry that the market is flooded with people who THINK they know PHP. There are TONS of worthless PHP programmers out there, and it hurts not only the reputation of the language but also the salary ranges because no one trusts that many of them are all that good (probably rightfully so). You may find a team out there with a real job to do that truly values what a good PHP programmer can do (and will pay in the high 80s, 90s, or sometimes even over 100k/yr), but most shops just want to shell out 30-40k/yr to some schmuck trolling away on Joomla modules (no offense, Joomla fans). .NET in general (esp C#) tends to pay better than what you'd find with PHP.
Java is gaining in the pay scale from what I hear. I've heard about a lot of decent Java programmers landing 150k+ jobs or on the rare occasion 250k+ because it's not as popular with the young programmers these days, but it's still in a lot of demand due to the maintenance and continued development of Java apps that are out there.
Objective-C may end up being pretty lucrative as well given the ridiculously huge demand for it right now. I can't speak much on it because I don't actually personally know any programmers who write i-Apps.
I, for one, would never enter a job "expecting" a bonus that wasn't inked with mine and my superior's signatures. "Discretionary" generally means "non-existent."
If he was promised "discretionary" bonuses, that's like saying "I promise you I'll give you a bonus...unless I don't actually give you a bonus."
These guys need to keep their mouths shut, accept what the contract says, and quietly find a new job. Griping publicly about this only makes them look like a pile of ill-informed, ignorant babies.
No one ever said the managers would "accept" the blame, but who do you think is going to get fired? In the "real world," upper management persons are rolled through like crazy. The second something doesn't go right, managers are replaced without a second thought. It's a lot easier to replace a single "leader" than the 20 people under him when things don't go right. There are the rare occurrences when it's actually the staff's fault, but generally speaking when there's a departmental failure, the fault lies with the management.
The sad stuff comes when the fault lies with unreasonable, or flat ridiculous, expectations placed by the "upper-upper" management, and then they endlessly roll through manager after manager when it's actually the "VP's" fault or some-such.
But I digress...
The cost of living in silicon valley and other areas of CA is twice that (or more) than most other places in the US. Making 60 in SV is like making 30 anywhere else...
This story is a far cry from being "tricked."
Yeah, when something breaks, who is going to take the blame? The programmer or the manager he reports to? In the business world, it's ALWAYS the manager. A manager is *responsible* for the activities of all those below him.
He deserves no more than he agreed to when he started employment. If He agreed to 150k, and there were no provisions for profit sharing, bonuses, or raises, that's HIS problem. If he respectfully requests a raise and doesn't get it, he can feel free to move to another employer who WILL give him what he "deserves," which is exactly what happened.
The fact remains though, that if he hadn't scored this "low paying" gig in the first place, the lack of experience may have easily kept him from scoring the higher paying gig later.
You can't complain about a salary that YOU agreed to. All you can do is move on and find someone who pays you want you want.
What if he's on a team with hundreds of other programmers and paying all "hundreds" of them way more than that is not an option? It's not as simple as you're making it out to be.
Of course one may want to make sure they have another job before quitting...or "not as much money as I want" could easily turn into "no money at all."
I remember cliffyb saying last year that the average salary for a programmer on a game-team was somewhere around 40-60k/yr. I'd say in the programming industry that's probably a pretty standard salary across the board.
If you're complaining about a salary of 150k/year as a programmer, you need to check yourself. That's a highly unusual salary for any programmer and I kinda doubt that positions like that are going to last in the long term.
It sold twice before Apple pulled it... Twice != "more than several"
I'm an independent geek by definition. I'm not particularly wealthy. I'm certainly not an elitist.
I've gotta say...the fact that this is on the front page of slashdot seriously degrades my opinion of the site. What in the world were the eds thinking?
Some people who own houses are selfish elites. Some people who drive cars are selfish elites. Where are the posts about them?
I'm less concerned with the prices dropping and more concerned with passing more of the benefit straight to the person who deserves it. Publishers, in general, are simply too greedy and controlling.
Hmm, I would like to reverse the question... Seems like most people I know prefer glossy to matte.
You gotta wonder what they perceived the benefit was of putting this "functionality" in place. I can't think of a single thing they gain by doing this...
Exactly. Most states have laws that disallow being within 100 feet of another watercraft. 65 is nothing.
point taken.