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The difference, if there is one, is time.
Compare articles about workplace life/perks at Google with similar articles written about Microsoft ten years earlier and you'd have a hard time telling them apart.
If you miss being non-monogamous so much, you should've stayed that way...
I miss the young more than the non-monogamous, and I didn't get a choice on that.
It's true that I do miss parts of being single at times or are nostalgic for its bright spots, but it's also true that I do overall prefer the life I've chosen to replace it with. My wife is amazing. Family life with anyone else I'd met or dated never seemed like a good idea, but this is right for me.
Can we send Leonardo DiCaprio with him so he'll get blown up as well?
I don't know, Titanic aside he's been in some pretty good movies.
The Departed, Inception, etc.
Hell, I even sat through Catch Me If You Can three or four times in the theatre as date movies and that wasn't that bad either. Ah, to be young and non-monogamous again.
I, however, am against most of the companies that support and force others to endorse C# and its evil friends. Call me fundamentalist -- it's what I call myself -- but Human Rights apologists were also called fundamentalists when it all started.
It's probable this loses something in translation, but this makes you sound less fundamentalist and more like somebody's special-needs cousin who hates the color blue for some reason.
The other thing I am finding is that, while you don't have be a salesperson, having some level of social skills and the ability to work with clients makes a big difference.
That's extra true if you want one of the kinds of programming jobs that can't/won't be outsourced, too.
The inlaws, actually, aren't as much of a problem as the extended family.
My father-in-law is super die-hard liberal, but he's not the kind of guy who gets in your face about it.
The entire rest of his family, somehow, are the kind of people who not only believe everything Glenn Beck says is absolutely true, but generally think the truth is even more full of secret liberal conspiracies that make no sense and would no way even advance an actual liberal agenda. Basically they think every member of the Democratic party is a question-marked costume away from being the Riddler.
I just don't see it as plausible. They're each other's main (commercial, for sure, and possibly period) competitor in too many of their core businesses.
It would be like the Democrats and Republicans deciding to run a single dual-party candidate in a Presidential election just to make sure the Green Party didn't win.
I don't know how I got to be the guy defending the Pope, but we don't know that he likes playing dress up. It's just traditionally part of his job.
I also don't assume that CEOs like wearing suits, that strippers like wearing stripper heels, or that the unfit-for-normal-duty cop who gets to be McGruff the Crime Dog this month is a furry.
I don't see the economic incentive for Oracle to keep this project, so I'm guessing the bulk of the Dev work is transitioning to IBM.
Well, look at it this way: your stereotypical Java enterprise project probably uses Oracle as its database. Conversely, while many.NET enterprise projects still use Oracle, the default database choice there is probably SQL Server. A project built in freer languages is probably looking at something like a PostGRE and not Oracle, etc. Java projects really are one of their best angles to sell Oracle licenses in the enterprise.
Now, whether Oracle is smart enough to think that far ahead without shooting themselves in the groin, I don't know.
I'm sure this IBM-Oracle teamup will produce an amazing result with the reliability of LotusNotes and the developer friendliness of an Oracle database tool.
It'll also have... well, crap. You're going to get sued if you use it no matter which parent is dominant there.
Sharepoint? You've never used it - Drupal is a lot better from almost every viewpoint.
Unless you're a business that uses Office for everything. You know, like almost all of them.
I mean, I'd pretty much rather stick my hand in a lawn mower than be a Sharepoint developer, but it's good at what it's supposed to be good at -- even if that thing isn't sexy or what you'd want it to be.
Probably forever, unless they actually get a dominant position in the mobile market, which seems unlikely at this point.
With the XBox, they're still offering you a better deal than anyone else in town, so they know they have you over a barrel. I don't see that happening with the phones anytime soon.
Not picking on you specifically, but I'd like to point out that the option to drive isn't just influenced by where you live and your public transportation options available (although it is), but also what's going on in the rest of your life.
Last year I could commute to work a few days a week via bike in the summer. This year, with a marginally shorter commute, I can't, because we had a baby. If something comes up during the day such that I need to get to her day care now (which happens a lot more than you'd think if you've never had kids) or otherwise tend to her needs in some way now, it means now, not in two hours when a bus schedule would make it possible.
(Yes, yes, our decision to have kids, not everyone makes that choice, blah blah blah, but it's a choice that society has to at some level respect or encourage for numerous purely practical reasons.)
I've worked at companies (as a Java developer, even!) that did reviews and thus (smaller) raises on a 6 month schedule, though I'd say they're in the minority and your observation is an astute one.
I'm sure I'm getting part of this wrong, because it's been about ten years since I sat through a presentation by an Akamai dude in the waning dot-com days, but their main offering was a sort of content caching/mirroring system with servers all over the place to back it up.
So for example, you're Fox and you sign up to have your streaming TV episodes "Akamaized". The day after a new episode of American Idol is posted to the web, probably a lot of people are downloading/streaming it. Akamai's setup would automatically mirror it out to a bunch of local servers all over the place, so in theory, no matter where you the watcher are, you're streaming from a server a low number of hops/latency from you, and you're not slashdotting Fox's own servers.
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The difference, if there is one, is time.
Compare articles about workplace life/perks at Google with similar articles written about Microsoft ten years earlier and you'd have a hard time telling them apart.
If you miss being non-monogamous so much, you should've stayed that way...
I miss the young more than the non-monogamous, and I didn't get a choice on that.
It's true that I do miss parts of being single at times or are nostalgic for its bright spots, but it's also true that I do overall prefer the life I've chosen to replace it with. My wife is amazing. Family life with anyone else I'd met or dated never seemed like a good idea, but this is right for me.
Can we send Leonardo DiCaprio with him so he'll get blown up as well?
I don't know, Titanic aside he's been in some pretty good movies.
The Departed, Inception, etc.
Hell, I even sat through Catch Me If You Can three or four times in the theatre as date movies and that wasn't that bad either. Ah, to be young and non-monogamous again.
How is this not beautiful:
I'll tell you:
It's not beautiful unless you believe that code should be harder to read than write.
I, however, am against most of the companies that support and force others to endorse C# and its evil friends. Call me fundamentalist -- it's what I call myself -- but Human Rights apologists were also called fundamentalists when it all started.
It's probable this loses something in translation, but this makes you sound less fundamentalist and more like somebody's special-needs cousin who hates the color blue for some reason.
The other thing I am finding is that, while you don't have be a salesperson, having some level of social skills and the ability to work with clients makes a big difference.
That's extra true if you want one of the kinds of programming jobs that can't/won't be outsourced, too.
Assuming everything you say is correct, I still think the share price will drop $100 the day Jobs dies.
It's not about what the company could or will do without him, but what enough of the shareholders will fear.
Sure, maybe, but that's a world so far divorced from the current state of affairs as to not be relevant.
Much like a world in which people spend a lot of money buying databases that aren't Oracle or SQL Server.
The inlaws, actually, aren't as much of a problem as the extended family.
My father-in-law is super die-hard liberal, but he's not the kind of guy who gets in your face about it.
The entire rest of his family, somehow, are the kind of people who not only believe everything Glenn Beck says is absolutely true, but generally think the truth is even more full of secret liberal conspiracies that make no sense and would no way even advance an actual liberal agenda. Basically they think every member of the Democratic party is a question-marked costume away from being the Riddler.
I just don't see it as plausible. They're each other's main (commercial, for sure, and possibly period) competitor in too many of their core businesses.
It would be like the Democrats and Republicans deciding to run a single dual-party candidate in a Presidential election just to make sure the Green Party didn't win.
And Larry Ellison's good buddies with Steve Jobs. Coincidence? I think not.
Of course it's not a coincidence. Pompous douchebags like other pompous douchebags. :)
Not to derail the conspiracy angle, but sometimes it's better to bet on people being self-promoting jerks than people being Evil with a capital E.
There are plenty of CEO's who have bucked the trend of wearing suits
I probably should have qualified that as CEOs of major investment banks, or something like that.
Basically, something that's as old-establishment conservative-image as a business as Catholicism is as religions go.
I don't know how I got to be the guy defending the Pope, but we don't know that he likes playing dress up. It's just traditionally part of his job.
I also don't assume that CEOs like wearing suits, that strippers like wearing stripper heels, or that the unfit-for-normal-duty cop who gets to be McGruff the Crime Dog this month is a furry.
With respect to the specific issue of being able to tell fantasy from reality?
Absolutely.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's like Vegas: ultimately, the house always wins.
In law, lawyers are the house.
I don't see the economic incentive for Oracle to keep this project, so I'm guessing the bulk of the Dev work is transitioning to IBM.
Well, look at it this way: your stereotypical Java enterprise project probably uses Oracle as its database. Conversely, while many .NET enterprise projects still use Oracle, the default database choice there is probably SQL Server. A project built in freer languages is probably looking at something like a PostGRE and not Oracle, etc. Java projects really are one of their best angles to sell Oracle licenses in the enterprise.
Now, whether Oracle is smart enough to think that far ahead without shooting themselves in the groin, I don't know.
I'm sure this IBM-Oracle teamup will produce an amazing result with the reliability of LotusNotes and the developer friendliness of an Oracle database tool.
It'll also have... well, crap. You're going to get sued if you use it no matter which parent is dominant there.
Sharepoint? You've never used it - Drupal is a lot better from almost every viewpoint.
Unless you're a business that uses Office for everything. You know, like almost all of them.
I mean, I'd pretty much rather stick my hand in a lawn mower than be a Sharepoint developer, but it's good at what it's supposed to be good at -- even if that thing isn't sexy or what you'd want it to be.
Probably forever, unless they actually get a dominant position in the mobile market, which seems unlikely at this point.
With the XBox, they're still offering you a better deal than anyone else in town, so they know they have you over a barrel. I don't see that happening with the phones anytime soon.
Same here. I can use Eclipse, I just don't enjoy it. Visual Studio I actually like working with.
That being said, I'd still bet on Android as a success over WP7.
Not picking on you specifically, but I'd like to point out that the option to drive isn't just influenced by where you live and your public transportation options available (although it is), but also what's going on in the rest of your life.
Last year I could commute to work a few days a week via bike in the summer. This year, with a marginally shorter commute, I can't, because we had a baby. If something comes up during the day such that I need to get to her day care now (which happens a lot more than you'd think if you've never had kids) or otherwise tend to her needs in some way now, it means now, not in two hours when a bus schedule would make it possible.
(Yes, yes, our decision to have kids, not everyone makes that choice, blah blah blah, but it's a choice that society has to at some level respect or encourage for numerous purely practical reasons.)
I've worked at companies (as a Java developer, even!) that did reviews and thus (smaller) raises on a 6 month schedule, though I'd say they're in the minority and your observation is an astute one.
It probably depends on what you do.
Around here, the job market for developers was pretty rough last year. This year? Not so much.
I don't know where you live, but if my kids play outside around Christmas, they may literally freeze to death. :)
I'm sure I'm getting part of this wrong, because it's been about ten years since I sat through a presentation by an Akamai dude in the waning dot-com days, but their main offering was a sort of content caching/mirroring system with servers all over the place to back it up.
So for example, you're Fox and you sign up to have your streaming TV episodes "Akamaized". The day after a new episode of American Idol is posted to the web, probably a lot of people are downloading/streaming it. Akamai's setup would automatically mirror it out to a bunch of local servers all over the place, so in theory, no matter where you the watcher are, you're streaming from a server a low number of hops/latency from you, and you're not slashdotting Fox's own servers.