Just like I feel that it's crucial to teach a new driver how to drive a stick, I feel it's crucial to start a programmer on the most basic and fundamental logic and understand what goes into an instruction.
I have seen and endured grotesque inefficiencies that were a result of an abstraction layered on abstraction, in a virtualized sandbox (java usually), running on virtualized/abstracted hardware.
Lower level design and programming is not more 'complex' - it's more precise. While it could be argued that there is a time and a place for training wheels. we also understand with training wheels that they have to come off someday so that the rider can actually 'ride', It seems like all we do in the tech world is make training wheels for training wheels anymore
H1-B workers are a corporate dream. They are basically indentured servants, who are often brought over on a 'contract', for which they sign and are expected to take an subaverage pay rate for a duration in exchange for H1-B sponsorship. This is a huge boon to the employer because the worker is in a compromised position and is bound to maintain the position or lose sponsorship and opportunity for further sponsorship.
Without appearing too radical in my position, this really was quite literally the foundation behind indentured servitude in this country in the late 1700s. Individuals would agree to a contract and buy passage to the new world on their contract labor.
Conditions have changed, but this is what business will always seek - leverage. I could not accurately recount the number of times I have seen h1-b postings that were fraudulent. Postings that claimed that there was 'no available talent.' If they would be honest and say "no available talent willing to work for 60% market rate", then at least it would be honest.
We're spending science mind power, money and time researching a way to make a drug that replaces a persons weakness of character and lack of willpower. If you want to stop smoking, just stop. Don't buy cigarettes.
I feel that our culture is sliding away from any concept of holding people personally responsible for their own choices. If a person smokes, overeats, under-exercises - those are their choices. They must be held accountable.
It's also the government that so many tyranny seekers point to as the desired state in which the US must transition. A helpless disarmed population, and a government with no limits.
This law basically gives the government the right to imprison anyone for life who is online doing anything they decide they oppose. One-button tyranny.
There are kitchens to be staffed, trash cans to be emptied and phones to be answered. All of those things require highly talented individuals who are going to be paying off student debt for eternity making low wages.
Joking aside, the degree matters a lot less or not at all when I hire people. What I am looking for is the ability to think which is unrelated to school and in many cases, counter to it.
Just so this is perfectly clear - I am an 'un-charged criminal', and so are you. What this is proposing is that the basis of innocent until proven guilty, the freedom from undue search and or seizure, which I am quite sure would have included having armed men follow one around observing them at all times, are all guarantees that we have but are not demanding from our own constitution.
What threat is so great that we accept these conditions? What threat is greater than tyranny and secrecy?
I was moving out of my house and needed to cancel cable service. I called them, and was put on hold and transferred around and spent no less than 45 minutes trying to get ahold of the right person to cancel my account and was disconnected twice.
In complete frustration, I transferred my cable bill to a separate credit card and cancelled that card. It was all I could do to get rid of comcast without another hour on the phone that I didn't have while packing the house and getting everything ready to go.
This article feels a little egoistic. The author is saying "Only special people.. like me."
Are also excluded from professional basketball, being CEOs and astronauts. Anywhere that there is competition, there will be emergence of traits that are dominant for that domain. It's not little league. Not everyone is a winner.
We'll hire less qualified non-white candidates to bring up our fake numbers for PR purposes.
I guess that's ok? That is a specifically race-prejudiced action.
The situation is now that they have actually DONE what is the most meritorious race-blind action which is to hire based on qualifications. I guess in today's obama world, that's not good enough.
I was the kid who took apart telephones, figured out how to make them do strange things, "borrowed" spare parts from the alarm company dumpster and made things with them... I learned to pick locks, listen in a room with an inductive pickup on phone wires (on old POTS phones, this was possible)
my first 'hack' was to short out connections on a video pong machine and make it do weird things.
my second and probably best hack was to make a working apple ][ out of spare parts in the apple store I worked at on weekends. Integer basic forever!
Ultimately I hack because of incurable curiosity and a desire to improve and eliminate inefficiencies. I am a producer, not a consumer.
I say leave it this way. There are people who by their nature will always trend towards lazy and stupid solutions. Give them those solutions so that we can pick them out easier when we're hiring people.
Remember, these industries are monopolies and their opponents are individuals. We will have a period of adjustment where the dying titans make themselves look even worse and fail to justify their own purpose by lashing out against things which are a benefit to mankind.
The basic problem here is the basic problem of our government anymore. We really do not have individual representation against corporate interests.
The denial reeks of clintonesque cynicism, where one is tacitly splitting hairs in some clever semantic way which not only to me demonstrates guilt, but a culture of guilt and a preparedness for smirking dishonesty.
These are the people we entrust with our encryption? We are good and truly fucked.
is that it betrays a dangerous naivete about human nature.
Remember that if something can be exploited for gain, in any way, without some kind of solid governance it will be exploited for gain. This is human nature.
What an idea! Tax technologies that replace old, wasteful ones to prop up the old wasteful ones. Oh my god the horse and buggy people should have thought of this, or the gas lamp makers who were so rudely displaced by light bulbs.
This is such a fantastically brilliant idea that it could really only come from a California politician. They are truly unique in that regard.
There are so many things wrong with this proposal on so many levels, that it is upsetting that it has gotten as far as it has. The idea that we should further burden citizens with a tax rather than simply charge a sustaining amount for services is absurd, when a significant use of those services is used for bulk-rate distribution of shit mail that wastes resources and commercial mail.
This is public support of corporate welfare, again.
Considering that it is currently a felony to violate the TOS of a website, of which you may or may not be aware - and the terms of service can change, or be reasonable, or not.
I wonder how many people here would thrive if vigorously prosecuted?
I wonder how many people here understand the complete disruption and destruction of your life that would occur if you were prosecuted?
Even with a pending felony prosecution you would be unable to find employment, at all. What defense could you provide on your own savings? A defense lawyer for a federal legal case will run you in the tens of thousands a month. How long can you afford that? A public defender will amount to taking the entire case on the prosecution's terms.
How much life and happiness would you have left after months in jail? Do you have enough savings to provide for your family if you had no income?
Criminalization is a disease of government, and must be cured. Punishments not fitting the crime are unconstitutional. This man killed himself because of how our government treated him. That's not a unique situation, it's just one you happen to know about.
The second amendment is what guarantees that all of the other amendments are regarded as rights, rather than privileges by those who fancy themselves as being 'in power.'
It's very, very easy for those who govern to fancy themselves rulers. Begging to be disarmed as a populace for the sole purpose of a false sense of security based on deliberately unclear and misleading statistics and hyperexploitation of emotional circumstances is a result of naive and lazy surrender.
The most important factor to bear in mind here is that disarming people has never resulted in an improved life for the people who were disarmed. Certainly not in extreme cases such as Germany and Austria in the 30's, but even without those examples of rule we have the examples that are ignorantly put forward as our own progression in this country. Britain, who enjoys a 400% higher violent crime rate than the US, and who has had steady increases in gun crime since guns were banned. Australia which has had a whopping 40%+ increase in violent and sexual assaults since banning civilian ownership of firearms for personal defense.
There has never been a single case where the disarming of a population has led to anything but the victimization of that population, either from government or from criminals who become hawks amongst doves.
Secondly and equally important is the gross overstatement of the weight and impact of crime in the US, and the violent crime rate. The US has significantly lower crime than any country in the world with tougher gun control laws, and that is even taking the high crime areas into account. The murder rate and violent crime rate have both dropped by 50% (fbi.gov) in the past 20 years in the US, but that figure is never mentioned because it doesn't induce panic.
The only place in the US that crime remains high is in poor uirban areas. New Orleans and Detroit leading the numbers.
The LOWEST places for violent crime, in fact any crime at all in the US are the places with the highest per capita gun ownership. 60% or more per family gun ownership in the rural and midwest, and those places taken independently have some of the lowest crime rates in the world.
After all the emotional arguments, the numbers just do not support any rational basis to say that disarming people will result in anything positive for the people being disarmed. The criminals won't turn their guns in, and aren't obeying those laws now. The guns being demonized aren't the ones being used in crimes.
The only new threat after disarming the populace is that the government is now free to provoke further unrest without danger of any reprisal or resistance, which is not a positive. Remove the temptation and you remove the crime. So long as the possibility of tyranny is nil, the opportunity for it is also nil. We owe it to ourselves to really accept that the numbers don't justify letting government solidify power and disempower people, which is what this is really all about.
People need to stop being guided by fear, and retake control of their own lives.
Had a pointy haired boss who insisted on coming in when he was sick, which wasn't often because he lived alone and had no kids.
This is the kind of guy who doesn't understand that people who have kids that go out of doors and play with other kids tend to get minor illnesses far more often and even pulled the dick move of comparing himself to other people in the office.
In such a circumstance it's very awkward to point out that the guy doesn't have the same social contact other people do, or kids and family so the comments get left unresponded to.
Considering the sad shape of education in this country...
9 months of poor classroom ratios, excessive homework and eliminating PT and focusing on rote learning standardized tests? No, we do not need more of the same, and yes - children do need time to be children.
These comments don't surprise me though. Competence isn't what seems to attract individuals to a career in decisionmaking in public educational systems.
is for the security and safety of other national interests to avoid using MS Windows at all, since it is most obviously being seeded with vulnerabilities.
I don't have TV, at all. I don't have cable even less so. I think this series is brilliant, but to watch it I have to find a friend who has cable and be there when it airs.
In a world with such ubiquitous connectivity and an already existing HBO-GO infrastructure, as well as netflix streaming and whatnot - it's flatly stupid that I can't pay for these episodes and watch them - which I would gladly do.
I want to support this kind of thing being made but I have no way to do that.
Eventually you've become a consumer who is a middleman. Someone else is the talent, and your customer is coming to you because you happen to be the one peddling that to them.
Later, as you lose your value addition and you're nothing but administrators and investors you'll wonder where the dream went - and finally, where the business went.
Let's put this in more practical terms.
"We're a company that sells apples. Do you think we should just buy apples from someone else and sell those instead? We'll jsut fire everyone who has any practical knowledge of apple growing, selection and breeding and just do what we do best... sell apples."
Pretty soon, you're a more expensive Walmart, which won't last long.
So yes, outsource your development. Leave the skill gain and ability to more worthy people. The future belongs to them.
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I feel just the opposite.
Just like I feel that it's crucial to teach a new driver how to drive a stick, I feel it's crucial to start a programmer on the most basic and fundamental logic and understand what goes into an instruction.
I have seen and endured grotesque inefficiencies that were a result of an abstraction layered on abstraction, in a virtualized sandbox (java usually), running on virtualized/abstracted hardware.
Lower level design and programming is not more 'complex' - it's more precise. While it could be argued that there is a time and a place for training wheels. we also understand with training wheels that they have to come off someday so that the rider can actually 'ride', It seems like all we do in the tech world is make training wheels for training wheels anymore
H1-B workers are a corporate dream. They are basically indentured servants, who are often brought over on a 'contract', for which they sign and are expected to take an subaverage pay rate for a duration in exchange for H1-B sponsorship. This is a huge boon to the employer because the worker is in a compromised position and is bound to maintain the position or lose sponsorship and opportunity for further sponsorship.
Without appearing too radical in my position, this really was quite literally the foundation behind indentured servitude in this country in the late 1700s. Individuals would agree to a contract and buy passage to the new world on their contract labor.
Conditions have changed, but this is what business will always seek - leverage. I could not accurately recount the number of times I have seen h1-b postings that were fraudulent. Postings that claimed that there was 'no available talent.' If they would be honest and say "no available talent willing to work for 60% market rate", then at least it would be honest.
I find this offensive?
We're spending science mind power, money and time researching a way to make a drug that replaces a persons weakness of character and lack of willpower. If you want to stop smoking, just stop. Don't buy cigarettes.
I feel that our culture is sliding away from any concept of holding people personally responsible for their own choices. If a person smokes, overeats, under-exercises - those are their choices. They must be held accountable.
That we died to get away from.
It's also the government that so many tyranny seekers point to as the desired state in which the US must transition. A helpless disarmed population, and a government with no limits.
This law basically gives the government the right to imprison anyone for life who is online doing anything they decide they oppose. One-button tyranny.
There are kitchens to be staffed, trash cans to be emptied and phones to be answered. All of those things require highly talented individuals who are going to be paying off student debt for eternity making low wages.
Joking aside, the degree matters a lot less or not at all when I hire people. What I am looking for is the ability to think which is unrelated to school and in many cases, counter to it.
Just so this is perfectly clear - I am an 'un-charged criminal', and so are you. What this is proposing is that the basis of innocent until proven guilty, the freedom from undue search and or seizure, which I am quite sure would have included having armed men follow one around observing them at all times, are all guarantees that we have but are not demanding from our own constitution.
What threat is so great that we accept these conditions? What threat is greater than tyranny and secrecy?
I was moving out of my house and needed to cancel cable service. I called them, and was put on hold and transferred around and spent no less than 45 minutes trying to get ahold of the right person to cancel my account and was disconnected twice.
In complete frustration, I transferred my cable bill to a separate credit card and cancelled that card. It was all I could do to get rid of comcast without another hour on the phone that I didn't have while packing the house and getting everything ready to go.
The experience was incredibly frustrating.
This article feels a little egoistic. The author is saying "Only special people.. like me."
Are also excluded from professional basketball, being CEOs and astronauts. Anywhere that there is competition, there will be emergence of traits that are dominant for that domain. It's not little league. Not everyone is a winner.
I've seen code produced by non-programmers.
We'll hire less qualified non-white candidates to bring up our fake numbers for PR purposes.
I guess that's ok? That is a specifically race-prejudiced action.
The situation is now that they have actually DONE what is the most meritorious race-blind action which is to hire based on qualifications. I guess in today's obama world, that's not good enough.
What do you mean hacking?
I was the kid who took apart telephones, figured out how to make them do strange things, "borrowed" spare parts from the alarm company dumpster and made things with them... I learned to pick locks, listen in a room with an inductive pickup on phone wires (on old POTS phones, this was possible)
my first 'hack' was to short out connections on a video pong machine and make it do weird things.
my second and probably best hack was to make a working apple ][ out of spare parts in the apple store I worked at on weekends. Integer basic forever!
Ultimately I hack because of incurable curiosity and a desire to improve and eliminate inefficiencies. I am a producer, not a consumer.
I say leave it this way. There are people who by their nature will always trend towards lazy and stupid solutions. Give them those solutions so that we can pick them out easier when we're hiring people.
Remember, these industries are monopolies and their opponents are individuals. We will have a period of adjustment where the dying titans make themselves look even worse and fail to justify their own purpose by lashing out against things which are a benefit to mankind.
The basic problem here is the basic problem of our government anymore. We really do not have individual representation against corporate interests.
after reading their denial?
The denial reeks of clintonesque cynicism, where one is tacitly splitting hairs in some clever semantic way which not only to me demonstrates guilt, but a culture of guilt and a preparedness for smirking dishonesty.
These are the people we entrust with our encryption? We are good and truly fucked.
is that it betrays a dangerous naivete about human nature.
Remember that if something can be exploited for gain, in any way, without some kind of solid governance it will be exploited for gain. This is human nature.
This situation should have appeared inevitable.
What an idea! Tax technologies that replace old, wasteful ones to prop up the old wasteful ones. Oh my god the horse and buggy people should have thought of this, or the gas lamp makers who were so rudely displaced by light bulbs.
This is such a fantastically brilliant idea that it could really only come from a California politician. They are truly unique in that regard.
There are so many things wrong with this proposal on so many levels, that it is upsetting that it has gotten as far as it has. The idea that we should further burden citizens with a tax rather than simply charge a sustaining amount for services is absurd, when a significant use of those services is used for bulk-rate distribution of shit mail that wastes resources and commercial mail.
This is public support of corporate welfare, again.
Considering that it is currently a felony to violate the TOS of a website, of which you may or may not be aware - and the terms of service can change, or be reasonable, or not.
I wonder how many people here would thrive if vigorously prosecuted?
I wonder how many people here understand the complete disruption and destruction of your life that would occur if you were prosecuted?
Even with a pending felony prosecution you would be unable to find employment, at all. What defense could you provide on your own savings? A defense lawyer for a federal legal case will run you in the tens of thousands a month. How long can you afford that? A public defender will amount to taking the entire case on the prosecution's terms.
How much life and happiness would you have left after months in jail? Do you have enough savings to provide for your family if you had no income?
Criminalization is a disease of government, and must be cured. Punishments not fitting the crime are unconstitutional. This man killed himself because of how our government treated him. That's not a unique situation, it's just one you happen to know about.
The second amendment is what guarantees that all of the other amendments are regarded as rights, rather than privileges by those who fancy themselves as being 'in power.'
It's very, very easy for those who govern to fancy themselves rulers. Begging to be disarmed as a populace for the sole purpose of a false sense of security based on deliberately unclear and misleading statistics and hyperexploitation of emotional circumstances is a result of naive and lazy surrender.
The most important factor to bear in mind here is that disarming people has never resulted in an improved life for the people who were disarmed. Certainly not in extreme cases such as Germany and Austria in the 30's, but even without those examples of rule we have the examples that are ignorantly put forward as our own progression in this country. Britain, who enjoys a 400% higher violent crime rate than the US, and who has had steady increases in gun crime since guns were banned. Australia which has had a whopping 40%+ increase in violent and sexual assaults since banning civilian ownership of firearms for personal defense.
There has never been a single case where the disarming of a population has led to anything but the victimization of that population, either from government or from criminals who become hawks amongst doves.
Secondly and equally important is the gross overstatement of the weight and impact of crime in the US, and the violent crime rate. The US has significantly lower crime than any country in the world with tougher gun control laws, and that is even taking the high crime areas into account. The murder rate and violent crime rate have both dropped by 50% (fbi.gov) in the past 20 years in the US, but that figure is never mentioned because it doesn't induce panic.
The only place in the US that crime remains high is in poor uirban areas. New Orleans and Detroit leading the numbers.
The LOWEST places for violent crime, in fact any crime at all in the US are the places with the highest per capita gun ownership. 60% or more per family gun ownership in the rural and midwest, and those places taken independently have some of the lowest crime rates in the world.
After all the emotional arguments, the numbers just do not support any rational basis to say that disarming people will result in anything positive for the people being disarmed. The criminals won't turn their guns in, and aren't obeying those laws now. The guns being demonized aren't the ones being used in crimes.
The only new threat after disarming the populace is that the government is now free to provoke further unrest without danger of any reprisal or resistance, which is not a positive. Remove the temptation and you remove the crime. So long as the possibility of tyranny is nil, the opportunity for it is also nil. We owe it to ourselves to really accept that the numbers don't justify letting government solidify power and disempower people, which is what this is really all about.
People need to stop being guided by fear, and retake control of their own lives.
"Are you still having problems with people reverting your commits at your new job?"
Had a pointy haired boss who insisted on coming in when he was sick, which wasn't often because he lived alone and had no kids.
This is the kind of guy who doesn't understand that people who have kids that go out of doors and play with other kids tend to get minor illnesses far more often and even pulled the dick move of comparing himself to other people in the office.
In such a circumstance it's very awkward to point out that the guy doesn't have the same social contact other people do, or kids and family so the comments get left unresponded to.
Needless to say, the party broke up.
I thought we were pro-property rights?
Considering the sad shape of education in this country...
9 months of poor classroom ratios, excessive homework and eliminating PT and focusing on rote learning standardized tests? No, we do not need more of the same, and yes - children do need time to be children.
These comments don't surprise me though. Competence isn't what seems to attract individuals to a career in decisionmaking in public educational systems.
I make a good living being the command line guy in a world of gui-constrained idiots. I don't mind keeping it that way.
is for the security and safety of other national interests to avoid using MS Windows at all, since it is most obviously being seeded with vulnerabilities.
I don't have TV, at all. I don't have cable even less so. I think this series is brilliant, but to watch it I have to find a friend who has cable and be there when it airs.
In a world with such ubiquitous connectivity and an already existing HBO-GO infrastructure, as well as netflix streaming and whatnot - it's flatly stupid that I can't pay for these episodes and watch them - which I would gladly do.
I want to support this kind of thing being made but I have no way to do that.
for the people you are outsourcing to.
Eventually you've become a consumer who is a middleman. Someone else is the talent, and your customer is coming to you because you happen to be the one peddling that to them.
Later, as you lose your value addition and you're nothing but administrators and investors you'll wonder where the dream went - and finally, where the business went.
Let's put this in more practical terms.
"We're a company that sells apples. Do you think we should just buy apples from someone else and sell those instead? We'll jsut fire everyone who has any practical knowledge of apple growing, selection and breeding and just do what we do best... sell apples."
Pretty soon, you're a more expensive Walmart, which won't last long.
So yes, outsource your development. Leave the skill gain and ability to more worthy people. The future belongs to them.