I'm not defending unequal trade taxes, you clown. I'm from Argentina. We've been fucked by american tariffs more than once. The US tried to shove down our throats a free trade agreement for all of Latin America back in Bush era. But that didn't work. Because we know better than signing deals with backstabbing US, who makes you sign a "free trade" agreement that exempts you of tariffs, but leaves all other imaginary walls up. Like "regulations" or, even worse, subsidies to farmers. Ah but then the US refuses to buy from us because "we subsidize our production so it's not fair".
The US has never been fair, and the chinese are even more unfair. But at least the chinese sand behind their treaties. They tell you up front how deep they're going to fuck you.
Except you're also cunts that like to play "technicality" bullshit. You don't have "tariffs" for many products... but you have "select partners", "regulations", and "subsidies" for a lot of areas. You can take the tariffs down to zero, but no one can compete with your corn price because you want to keep your farmers happy, and only a select club can sell you beef and lemons, because of "regulations" on the quality of the product. You're not a free market. Don't go about bullying everyone into thinking you are. We're not stupid.
Oh, fuck you! You've been doing this for years. China plays by the rules. You start wars to steal other countries' oil. Read up on what the CIA has been doing all these years instead of trying to put the US as the victim here. Grow up.
fox latin america is the worst. It's just horrible. They cut scenes off shows, and at the end, squeeze the credits to the side and fast forward them. All to show more ads. And even worse, BIG, HUGE LETERS with countdowns: 29 DAYS, 2 HOURS AND 30 SECONDS UNTIL THE SEASON PREMIERE OF THE WALKING DEAD. That sign is up for the whole month, taking about 10% of the screen. When the walking dead season premiere is up, the sign is changed: WALKING DEAD SEASON PREMIERE.
microsoft has the community by the balls now. Visual Studio Code is king everywhere. Microsoft has silently crept into both Mac and Linux from the most unexpected place: developers. And yes, I know VS Code IS Atom. But it's a GOOD version of Atom with several very sane defaults. The "community" doesn't understand that, sometimes, the flexiblility of your product plays against you in the form of "learning curve". VS Code just works *AND* you can extend it as much as you can extend Atom. It's a win-win for everyone... so far.
until the day they want to get into electronics and realize they can't hold a soldering iron. oh well. who needs electronics. we'll have robots that will do that for us
They are not "chasing" anyone. They just gave him a warning. A notice that he was doing something without knowing. And T-mobile is part of this. It's them that filed the complaint. The FCC doesn't have a network of antennas all over the country. They work based on complaints from people with registered frequencies. T-mobile most likely noticed this because of some base station picking up some strange noise floor.
If you run a miner in the middle of nowhere, you won't be visited by the FCC anytime soon.
Huh? The most popular phone in the US is the iPhone. People are more than happy to buy into vendor lock in. You can't get more "vendor lock in" than Apple.
Xiaomi is the chinese equivalent of Samsung. They make EVERYTHING, from phones to air conditioners, from robot vacuums to RGB light bulbs.
In a couple of years we'll see much more of this company. Their products are actually quite good. So far i've used their dirt-cheap "smart plugs" and the incredibily niche but super cool "air conditioner companion" (a device to turn your regular remote control based AC into a "smart" air conditioner).
So far they seem to be China-only with their products. But soon we'll see more of them.
In your world, you mean inside your head? Or are you freelance?
Because in most professional development the developers DON'T choose the technologies. They may have a say, they may make a suggestion, but the management decides what's to be used.
Where I work, the manager, a former software developer, decided to go with.NET and SQL Server. And all Winforms. For an application that queries public APIs and it's deployed in thousands of computers. "Because.NET is Tried And True®, Mature® and has a lot of support® from Microsoft. Oh and as much business logic as possible should go in stored procedures because they can be changed easily without a new deployment".
His second in command (my "leader"), a former FoxPro developer can't stop whining about "how bad.NET really is, and FoxPro is far superior for everything. It's just that microsoft decided to kill FoxPro for marketing reasons". The guy keeps a separate implementation for every client. Often months away from each other "because if the version is working there is no point in changing it". Then the clients wants new features. The features are already developed in the development branch. "Can you merge these changes?" "No I can't. It impacts several parts of the system" "uh but why!!!! it's just a module!!" "yes, it's the security module. it impacts EVERY WINDOW IN THE SYSTEM, we can't just change it".
And database scripts? Hell naw. We'll just copy the production database and empty the tables.
The project has now blown up in their faces. Every report they need to add to the system takes weeks to develop (because of course, they HAVE to be developed in T-SQL and deployed to Reporting Services), then added to the Menu of the application. Formerly it was one-form-per-report. So i developed a form that just takes the report ID and looks it up in the database. "No, no, that's ugly, we can't just add a string to specify the report! It has to be on a table!"
Lucky for me, like I said, the project has blown up in their faces. 60% of the dev force was fired by the new management. They're outsourcing to Colombia now. My bosses are scared. They know they will be next. So they're trying to come up with a new reporting system. In a week I hacked something together with Node.js and MongoDB. I reduced the execution time of a SP from 3-4 seconds to 200ms in MongoDB. Another report timed out at 5 minutes on SQL Server. It runs on 27 seconds on Mongo. The ETL is so fast that I made a real time report that updates the screen with every row (my new leader loves it so much, she will be showing it to a big client to look for their "sponsorship" so they won't fire all of us). My new team blew their minds in the presentation last friday, so they "sort of" greenlighted us to go ahead and play a little more with my proposed architecture.
So yeah, the developer is the last in line to decide anything. There are very strong forces (inertia, client opinion, new management destroying everything) that it's just foolish to think the developer can choose "the right tool for the job".
And honestly, after reading the comments in this discussion, I'm glad it's that way. So many "hackers" thinking about "hacking something together with bash scripts". Come on kid. This isn't your home server. This is corporate. This is a team. Code needs to be tested and understood by others. Deployments need to be easy. Bash, sed, and awk, just won't cut it in the real world. Using Winforms and having no SQL Server script might be retarded, but hacking stuff with bash? Thanks, I'll stick to DbComparer.
Well. Remember, in America you don't get paid vacations or maternity leave. So why would an employer GIVE you paid vactions if they can... you know,... NOT?
Seems like an easy choice. And it's a choice companies like Walmart do in a regular basis. In your first years, you will get NO VACATIONS.
I'm all for the deregulation of most things (since most regulations are windows for corruption). But some things you NEED to be regulated. You can only play "race to the bottom" for so long. Remember that a company getting a few extra billion a year will just put them in the bank, or offshore. People getting a few extra billion a year will spend it. Trickle-down economics never works.
Yeah but low-wage workers don't just disappear. They go into social aid programs, and instead of the CEO paying them a salary for doing menial work, it's YOU paying for their food stamps.
Even then, they'll always run losses because the international treaties rapes every western postal service.
Argentina took a different route: every package you get from abroad (especially China) is held by customs. Then they send you a letter demanding you pay them about USD 8 + import taxes. There's no "free shipping" here.
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I'm not defending unequal trade taxes, you clown.
I'm from Argentina. We've been fucked by american tariffs more than once. The US tried to shove down our throats a free trade agreement for all of Latin America back in Bush era. But that didn't work. Because we know better than signing deals with backstabbing US, who makes you sign a "free trade" agreement that exempts you of tariffs, but leaves all other imaginary walls up. Like "regulations" or, even worse, subsidies to farmers.
Ah but then the US refuses to buy from us because "we subsidize our production so it's not fair".
The US has never been fair, and the chinese are even more unfair. But at least the chinese sand behind their treaties. They tell you up front how deep they're going to fuck you.
See? This is the kind of comments why I tell americans to GROW UP.
"The enemy"? What are you? 12?
They're not enemies. They're your fucking TRADE PARTNERS.
Go stand for your interests against Russia. Come on.
That's what I thought.
Except you're also cunts that like to play "technicality" bullshit. You don't have "tariffs" for many products... but you have "select partners", "regulations", and "subsidies" for a lot of areas. You can take the tariffs down to zero, but no one can compete with your corn price because you want to keep your farmers happy, and only a select club can sell you beef and lemons, because of "regulations" on the quality of the product.
You're not a free market. Don't go about bullying everyone into thinking you are. We're not stupid.
Oh, fuck you! You've been doing this for years. China plays by the rules. You start wars to steal other countries' oil. Read up on what the CIA has been doing all these years instead of trying to put the US as the victim here. Grow up.
Just leave it to Ol' Musky and he will build one.
Fox Latin America isn't a broadcast channel. It's a cable channel.
fox latin america is the worst. It's just horrible. They cut scenes off shows, and at the end, squeeze the credits to the side and fast forward them. All to show more ads.
And even worse, BIG, HUGE LETERS with countdowns:
29 DAYS, 2 HOURS AND 30 SECONDS UNTIL THE SEASON PREMIERE OF THE WALKING DEAD.
That sign is up for the whole month, taking about 10% of the screen.
When the walking dead season premiere is up, the sign is changed:
WALKING DEAD SEASON PREMIERE.
Also you have your head so deep up your own ass you don't know that Visual Studio Code is not the same as Visual Studio.
LOL.
microsoft has the community by the balls now. Visual Studio Code is king everywhere. Microsoft has silently crept into both Mac and Linux from the most unexpected place: developers.
And yes, I know VS Code IS Atom. But it's a GOOD version of Atom with several very sane defaults. The "community" doesn't understand that, sometimes, the flexiblility of your product plays against you in the form of "learning curve". VS Code just works *AND* you can extend it as much as you can extend Atom. It's a win-win for everyone... so far.
Not sure if i should call you an ignorant, or an imbecile.
I'll go with both.
until the day they want to get into electronics and realize they can't hold a soldering iron.
oh well. who needs electronics. we'll have robots that will do that for us
HDMI is legacy now. The Reality Distortion Field is strong with this one.
They are not "chasing" anyone. They just gave him a warning. A notice that he was doing something without knowing.
And T-mobile is part of this. It's them that filed the complaint. The FCC doesn't have a network of antennas all over the country. They work based on complaints from people with registered frequencies. T-mobile most likely noticed this because of some base station picking up some strange noise floor.
If you run a miner in the middle of nowhere, you won't be visited by the FCC anytime soon.
I still remember the mid-90s, when 486s and Pentiums ran at 100Mhz. The FM station interference, my god!
pretty sure TV is a protected service and interfering with it will get you in trouble.
Huh? The most popular phone in the US is the iPhone. People are more than happy to buy into vendor lock in. You can't get more "vendor lock in" than Apple.
Xiaomi is the chinese equivalent of Samsung. They make EVERYTHING, from phones to air conditioners, from robot vacuums to RGB light bulbs.
In a couple of years we'll see much more of this company. Their products are actually quite good. So far i've used their dirt-cheap "smart plugs" and the incredibily niche but super cool "air conditioner companion" (a device to turn your regular remote control based AC into a "smart" air conditioner).
So far they seem to be China-only with their products. But soon we'll see more of them.
In your world, you mean inside your head?
Or are you freelance?
Because in most professional development the developers DON'T choose the technologies. They may have a say, they may make a suggestion, but the management decides what's to be used.
Where I work, the manager, a former software developer, decided to go with .NET and SQL Server. And all Winforms. For an application that queries public APIs and it's deployed in thousands of computers. "Because .NET is Tried And True®, Mature® and has a lot of support® from Microsoft. Oh and as much business logic as possible should go in stored procedures because they can be changed easily without a new deployment".
His second in command (my "leader"), a former FoxPro developer can't stop whining about "how bad .NET really is, and FoxPro is far superior for everything. It's just that microsoft decided to kill FoxPro for marketing reasons". The guy keeps a separate implementation for every client. Often months away from each other "because if the version is working there is no point in changing it". Then the clients wants new features. The features are already developed in the development branch. "Can you merge these changes?" "No I can't. It impacts several parts of the system" "uh but why!!!! it's just a module!!" "yes, it's the security module. it impacts EVERY WINDOW IN THE SYSTEM, we can't just change it".
And database scripts? Hell naw. We'll just copy the production database and empty the tables.
The project has now blown up in their faces. Every report they need to add to the system takes weeks to develop (because of course, they HAVE to be developed in T-SQL and deployed to Reporting Services), then added to the Menu of the application. Formerly it was one-form-per-report. So i developed a form that just takes the report ID and looks it up in the database. "No, no, that's ugly, we can't just add a string to specify the report! It has to be on a table!"
Lucky for me, like I said, the project has blown up in their faces. 60% of the dev force was fired by the new management. They're outsourcing to Colombia now. My bosses are scared. They know they will be next. So they're trying to come up with a new reporting system. In a week I hacked something together with Node.js and MongoDB. I reduced the execution time of a SP from 3-4 seconds to 200ms in MongoDB. Another report timed out at 5 minutes on SQL Server. It runs on 27 seconds on Mongo. The ETL is so fast that I made a real time report that updates the screen with every row (my new leader loves it so much, she will be showing it to a big client to look for their "sponsorship" so they won't fire all of us). My new team blew their minds in the presentation last friday, so they "sort of" greenlighted us to go ahead and play a little more with my proposed architecture.
So yeah, the developer is the last in line to decide anything. There are very strong forces (inertia, client opinion, new management destroying everything) that it's just foolish to think the developer can choose "the right tool for the job".
And honestly, after reading the comments in this discussion, I'm glad it's that way. So many "hackers" thinking about "hacking something together with bash scripts". Come on kid. This isn't your home server. This is corporate. This is a team. Code needs to be tested and understood by others. Deployments need to be easy. Bash, sed, and awk, just won't cut it in the real world. Using Winforms and having no SQL Server script might be retarded, but hacking stuff with bash? Thanks, I'll stick to DbComparer.
Ah yes, the USA-centric answer. Never fails.
"Might"? Remember 9/11?
Well. Remember, in America you don't get paid vacations or maternity leave. ... NOT?
So why would an employer GIVE you paid vactions if they can... you know,
Seems like an easy choice. And it's a choice companies like Walmart do in a regular basis. In your first years, you will get NO VACATIONS.
I'm all for the deregulation of most things (since most regulations are windows for corruption). But some things you NEED to be regulated. You can only play "race to the bottom" for so long. Remember that a company getting a few extra billion a year will just put them in the bank, or offshore. People getting a few extra billion a year will spend it. Trickle-down economics never works.
Yeah but low-wage workers don't just disappear. They go into social aid programs, and instead of the CEO paying them a salary for doing menial work, it's YOU paying for their food stamps.
Argentina took a different route: every package you get from abroad (especially China) is held by customs. Then they send you a letter demanding you pay them about USD 8 + import taxes. There's no "free shipping" here.