Because modern browsers are the closest thing we've ever gotten to an actual cross-platform ecosystem with an efficient distribution system baked in. While not 100% by any mean, we're pretty close to a point where you write an app for Chrome, and it will just work in other browsers, including IE back a few versions. You have to make sure not to use certain features, but you don't need annoying abstraction libraries like you would in native code to support *nix vs Windows, nevermind mobile operating systems.
And because of that, the ecosystem around the language is blooming, and the code written can then be used in other environments, like server/client (node.js) and data (mongo). The language sucks, but what was made around it is blissful.
First, you start with the talent pool, which is very low on minorities and females.
Then you cut off the 95% bottom part, as these companies get more applicants than the average tech company, and can be somewhat more picky. You have even fewer (not because women or minorities can't be good, but certain demographics statistically do better at showing off their strengths in the shark pool).
Now of whats left, these companies have a biais to hire ultra monitivated/no work life balance/eat and dream computer science people. That cuts off anyone whom's life doesn't revolve around the field.
And then the coup de grace, they favor younger applicants, and women and minorities usually have kids younger (the gender age gap stereotype of women usually dating older guys doesn't help here...it means usually the woman will be significantly younger when they have kids). So a young man is more likely to not have kid than a woman of the same age, and thus will have more time to dedicate to the career.
All that together means you end up with white males, asians and indians. Its just the correlation between these groups and the criteria the hyper-competitive companies use to hire that cause this.
The article uses energy and electricity to mean the same thing. So if you have a gas water heater, then it won't be in the same bucket as the box.
I do have a 50 gallon electric water heater, and its definitely a distant third in electricity consumption, behind the HVAC and the gaming computers (only if we put both computers and count them as one thing though)
The laundry machines are a joke, especially if you have a gas dryer. In summer, my stove/oven + dryer together cost me 6 bucks a month to run.
The evidence shouldn't be too hard to come by. For a while Youtube offered a page showing statistics for your ISP's streaming rate vs other ISPs in the same general area.
I was on FiOS at the time, and the streaming speed was pitiful (could barely stream 360p during peak hours on youtube), while the average in the area was significantly higher. Switched ISPs (yeah, I had a choice at the time), and sure enough, it was all better.
Its a knee jerk overreaction to people being so freagin retarded in this country. If you don't have laws, enforced laws, with teeth, people do whatever to the full extent of what is allowed, with no common sense whatsoever.
Now, everywhere in the world has that issue, but just not to the full extent the US has it (as far as the "first world" goes). I've lived in multiple countries for a number of years, and now I'm in the US, and its just shocking. People smoking while leaning on a no-smoking sign. People screaming on top of their lungs in the street at 3 in the morning. People letting their dog bark for hours while cheering it on. Lines while waiting at a busy bus stop? Hell no! If there's no risk of jail time, not only someone will do it, but a LOT of people will do it.
And people pointing laser pointers at anything and everything.
Its such a ridiculous society that doesn't give a flying duck about their neighbor. EVER. So you end up in a world where everything has to be fucking spelled out with someone in uniform wacking them behind the head all the time like little babies, or they won't apply the slightest bit of common sense.
Until SP3 it had an issue where randomly the registry would get corrupted and it would blue screen at boot, requiring a system restore. It didn't happen often, but no matter your configuration, the longer you used it, the closer to 1 the probability of it happening. The issue was fixed in SP3 and then life was good.
XP also took until SP2 to be bearable... people forget history so quickly.
At the same time, now Powershell (which can be accessed remote and ecnrypted, like a typical Bash over SSH), can do pretty much everything out of the box without needing to add anything (aside a certificate if you want the encrypted part), so you don't really need the UI anyway.
IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server etc, all support it just fine, and you can obviously run any command line utility through it for anything that supports it.
Its rare I ever hit RDP on my windows servers anymore. There's no point unless you're dealing with software that seriously needs an update.
Yup. The customers pay for downloading from their ISP to their home. Netflix pays for streaming from their CDNs to their provider(s). What happens in between is the problem of the ISPs.
Comcast wants BOTH the customer AND netflix to pay for the download part. Thats where it gets messed up.
There's a few "3-monitor-in-one" curved monitors around (I don't know if they're actually sold and too lazy to check, but Alienware showed a prototype years ago). It looked pretty freagin cool in games.
There's 2 big use cases for desktop virtualization. The common one is to run a ton of desktops of off little hardware, with the idea that most people only read emails and use MS Word all day anyway. Big cost saving.
The other is purely to have desktops centralized in a data center so you can have data center admins deal with them instead of needing (as many) on site tech monkeys.
I worked in companies where it was the later. The users still needed 16+ gb of RAM, dedicated powerful hardware, etc, but now if something blew up, you didn't need to send someone at their desk to fix it, and you could still just move the image to a different machine while the first one was being fixed.
This technology seems very well suited toward the later.
Auto-commit is probably overkill, but: distributed source control.
I commit to my local branch at every semi-reasonable checkpoint, and yeah, after a while my commit messages look like those from that XKCD about git. Every so often I'll push to a private remote branch as a backup.
Then when I squash my commits and push the atomic change to the main repo, yeah, that will be a deliberate, reviewed and well explained commit. But only then.
and how do you plan to get your free movies over the "innernetz" without doing business with the same monopolies? Who cares about cable TV. Its cable internet that doesn't have an alternative in most places. TV's easy to replace, the internet is getting close (not the same, but slowly creeping up) to being as important as electricity.
Unrelated to the topic, but being qualified for the job and being qualified for the interview is 2 totally different things in the IT and software development field, since there's so many bad interviewers out there.
I wish I could screen for the interview before agreeing to do it. Would save me a lot of trouble.
Historically, so far, the easier you make it, the harder the problems become.
One of the most visible examples of this is in frontend web development. Now that we have jquery and a billion javascript librairies, we don't do the same simple web pages we used to in a fraction of the time (something that would have taken a month back then takes literally seconds today). Instead, we do crazy shit that were never meant to be done in a browser.
If we make that crazy shit easier, people will just go and do crazier shit.
Google already has search parameters to not look at older content though. Its in the search options, you can look for stuff of the last year, last month, last week, etc.
Its downright necessary if doing any search on JavaScript technologies, since they change every other week and anything older than a month is virtually irrelevant.
if I don't like a news article on a specific news website, can I just post a comment under the news article, then request my right to be forgotten to get that link taken down?
Careful though. FiOS is 100x worse than Comcast when it comes to throttling. On (most of) the east coast, if you have FiOS, you'll be happy to be able to stream Youtube at 360p with buffering (Google for a while had a page with their statistics on that, and FiOS streaming speed for youtube was a fraction of anyone else's, INCLUDING Comcast). And their peering agreements are pathetic, so if you're playing an MMORPG thats somewhat far, hello unplayable lag (and a VPN that changes the route or shape traffic will fix the issue instantly).
Don't get me wrong, I hate Comcast, I want them to die in a fire and suffer. But FiOS is worse. Much worse.
Too much of the US is under insanely long contracts or corrupted to the core. A lot of major cities can't get Fiber because of insane exclusivity contracts with Comcast or others.
The politics around it will stop all but a fraction of the country from evolving.
Major laws would have to be passed to invalidate all of that.
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Because modern browsers are the closest thing we've ever gotten to an actual cross-platform ecosystem with an efficient distribution system baked in. While not 100% by any mean, we're pretty close to a point where you write an app for Chrome, and it will just work in other browsers, including IE back a few versions. You have to make sure not to use certain features, but you don't need annoying abstraction libraries like you would in native code to support *nix vs Windows, nevermind mobile operating systems.
And because of that, the ecosystem around the language is blooming, and the code written can then be used in other environments, like server/client (node.js) and data (mongo). The language sucks, but what was made around it is blissful.
More generic interpretation:
People get good at doing stuff they care about.
This.
First, you start with the talent pool, which is very low on minorities and females.
Then you cut off the 95% bottom part, as these companies get more applicants than the average tech company, and can be somewhat more picky. You have even fewer (not because women or minorities can't be good, but certain demographics statistically do better at showing off their strengths in the shark pool).
Now of whats left, these companies have a biais to hire ultra monitivated/no work life balance/eat and dream computer science people. That cuts off anyone whom's life doesn't revolve around the field.
And then the coup de grace, they favor younger applicants, and women and minorities usually have kids younger (the gender age gap stereotype of women usually dating older guys doesn't help here...it means usually the woman will be significantly younger when they have kids). So a young man is more likely to not have kid than a woman of the same age, and thus will have more time to dedicate to the career.
All that together means you end up with white males, asians and indians. Its just the correlation between these groups and the criteria the hyper-competitive companies use to hire that cause this.
The article uses energy and electricity to mean the same thing. So if you have a gas water heater, then it won't be in the same bucket as the box.
I do have a 50 gallon electric water heater, and its definitely a distant third in electricity consumption, behind the HVAC and the gaming computers (only if we put both computers and count them as one thing though)
The laundry machines are a joke, especially if you have a gas dryer. In summer, my stove/oven + dryer together cost me 6 bucks a month to run.
Node.js. Node-Webkit if you need client UI.
Boom. Done.
You can turn off the ability to locate (or at least get a general idea of the location) your cell via triangulation? WOW!
yes, exactly :) I hadn't been able to find it in a while. Thank you!
The evidence shouldn't be too hard to come by. For a while Youtube offered a page showing statistics for your ISP's streaming rate vs other ISPs in the same general area.
I was on FiOS at the time, and the streaming speed was pitiful (could barely stream 360p during peak hours on youtube), while the average in the area was significantly higher. Switched ISPs (yeah, I had a choice at the time), and sure enough, it was all better.
Its a knee jerk overreaction to people being so freagin retarded in this country. If you don't have laws, enforced laws, with teeth, people do whatever to the full extent of what is allowed, with no common sense whatsoever.
Now, everywhere in the world has that issue, but just not to the full extent the US has it (as far as the "first world" goes). I've lived in multiple countries for a number of years, and now I'm in the US, and its just shocking. People smoking while leaning on a no-smoking sign. People screaming on top of their lungs in the street at 3 in the morning. People letting their dog bark for hours while cheering it on. Lines while waiting at a busy bus stop? Hell no! If there's no risk of jail time, not only someone will do it, but a LOT of people will do it.
And people pointing laser pointers at anything and everything.
Its such a ridiculous society that doesn't give a flying duck about their neighbor. EVER. So you end up in a world where everything has to be fucking spelled out with someone in uniform wacking them behind the head all the time like little babies, or they won't apply the slightest bit of common sense.
Until SP3 it had an issue where randomly the registry would get corrupted and it would blue screen at boot, requiring a system restore. It didn't happen often, but no matter your configuration, the longer you used it, the closer to 1 the probability of it happening. The issue was fixed in SP3 and then life was good.
XP also took until SP2 to be bearable... people forget history so quickly.
At the same time, now Powershell (which can be accessed remote and ecnrypted, like a typical Bash over SSH), can do pretty much everything out of the box without needing to add anything (aside a certificate if you want the encrypted part), so you don't really need the UI anyway.
IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server etc, all support it just fine, and you can obviously run any command line utility through it for anything that supports it.
Its rare I ever hit RDP on my windows servers anymore. There's no point unless you're dealing with software that seriously needs an update.
Yup. The customers pay for downloading from their ISP to their home. Netflix pays for streaming from their CDNs to their provider(s). What happens in between is the problem of the ISPs.
Comcast wants BOTH the customer AND netflix to pay for the download part. Thats where it gets messed up.
There's a few "3-monitor-in-one" curved monitors around (I don't know if they're actually sold and too lazy to check, but Alienware showed a prototype years ago). It looked pretty freagin cool in games.
While too short for taste, Nexus devices at least have a well defined/known EOL, so they're good for that.
Too bad the nexus program is probably not gonna go on for much longer though :(
There's 2 big use cases for desktop virtualization. The common one is to run a ton of desktops of off little hardware, with the idea that most people only read emails and use MS Word all day anyway. Big cost saving.
The other is purely to have desktops centralized in a data center so you can have data center admins deal with them instead of needing (as many) on site tech monkeys.
I worked in companies where it was the later. The users still needed 16+ gb of RAM, dedicated powerful hardware, etc, but now if something blew up, you didn't need to send someone at their desk to fix it, and you could still just move the image to a different machine while the first one was being fixed.
This technology seems very well suited toward the later.
Of course I do. This one has the nice side effect of easier collaboration than any other I can think of, though!
Auto-commit is probably overkill, but: distributed source control.
I commit to my local branch at every semi-reasonable checkpoint, and yeah, after a while my commit messages look like those from that XKCD about git. Every so often I'll push to a private remote branch as a backup.
Then when I squash my commits and push the atomic change to the main repo, yeah, that will be a deliberate, reviewed and well explained commit. But only then.
We're not all on SVN and SourceSafe anymore!
and how do you plan to get your free movies over the "innernetz" without doing business with the same monopolies? Who cares about cable TV. Its cable internet that doesn't have an alternative in most places. TV's easy to replace, the internet is getting close (not the same, but slowly creeping up) to being as important as electricity.
Unrelated to the topic, but being qualified for the job and being qualified for the interview is 2 totally different things in the IT and software development field, since there's so many bad interviewers out there.
I wish I could screen for the interview before agreeing to do it. Would save me a lot of trouble.
Historically, so far, the easier you make it, the harder the problems become.
One of the most visible examples of this is in frontend web development. Now that we have jquery and a billion javascript librairies, we don't do the same simple web pages we used to in a fraction of the time (something that would have taken a month back then takes literally seconds today). Instead, we do crazy shit that were never meant to be done in a browser.
If we make that crazy shit easier, people will just go and do crazier shit.
Google's search can't remove a part of a page though. Either the whole page goes, or none of it goes.
Google already has search parameters to not look at older content though. Its in the search options, you can look for stuff of the last year, last month, last week, etc.
Its downright necessary if doing any search on JavaScript technologies, since they change every other week and anything older than a month is virtually irrelevant.
It does have ramifications though.
if I don't like a news article on a specific news website, can I just post a comment under the news article, then request my right to be forgotten to get that link taken down?
Careful though. FiOS is 100x worse than Comcast when it comes to throttling. On (most of) the east coast, if you have FiOS, you'll be happy to be able to stream Youtube at 360p with buffering (Google for a while had a page with their statistics on that, and FiOS streaming speed for youtube was a fraction of anyone else's, INCLUDING Comcast). And their peering agreements are pathetic, so if you're playing an MMORPG thats somewhat far, hello unplayable lag (and a VPN that changes the route or shape traffic will fix the issue instantly).
Don't get me wrong, I hate Comcast, I want them to die in a fire and suffer. But FiOS is worse. Much worse.
Too much of the US is under insanely long contracts or corrupted to the core. A lot of major cities can't get Fiber because of insane exclusivity contracts with Comcast or others.
The politics around it will stop all but a fraction of the country from evolving.
Major laws would have to be passed to invalidate all of that.