You can use VS for android apps. Xamarin or whatever. I personally never used it, but one of my collegues makes android/iOS games on the side (pretty good ones....his last one made 30 grands in a month? So its no Angry Birds, but its not garbage either) using.NET, and you'd never be able to tell...it looks like any other "top notch" iOS or Android game. And if it can make a game, it can easily do most anything.
He wasn't even a.NET dev when he started...he tried objective C and stuff, said "fuck this", tried other options and settled on that. So I guess its not half bad.
Of course they're not tied to a unique session...they're "remember me" cookies. They're supposed to still work after you kill the session. And by definition they have very long expiration. Now, you can keep track on the server of which cookies you handed out, and if someone invalidates one (logs off), keep track of that and refuse the cookie if its provided again, but its a pretty rare implementation as its not really considered a big problem (as long as the cookies are only passed around via https...if they're not, its something else altogether).
Its not a big exploit nobody knew about or anything, it works that way by design. You can argue against that design, but its no discovery or anything...
Of course everything you described is the bare minimum for a modern IDE. Eclipse does have an advantage because it has more extensions written for it, but both IDEs have a ton (VS is also extremely extensible and has countless extensions written for it too).
But you're not helping your case if you only mention core IDE features. Issue tracking integration?::GASPS:: stop the press!
Between web development, mobile development (mainly objective c and java), line of business apps, plugin devs, IT admins, database devs, etc, C/C++ devs are brutally outnumbered. Then of that small subset, take the ones that would use a full fledged IDE, and you end up with a VERY small subset. So yeah, when comparing IDEs, C++ devs are almost irrelevent.
You have to be more specific when you say stuff like that. VS does have all the basic refactorings, and has more in every version (not really worth talking about 2010 and earlier when we're in 2013).
Of course, whats build in is primitive compared to other IDEs, because of all the plugins and extensions that fill the gap. If you're one of the 2-3 VS users who don't use Resharper or other plugins, well, tough.
Obs: It is interesting to mention that the "1%" here does not have any complications to send out millions, the difficulties and extorsive taxes are only for ordinary people.
Flat fees. Its the same $50 to send $50 or to send 10 million, because its the same damn service. Nothing to do with the "1%".
Short of issues with CSS transforms and in some cases hardware acceleration in general on Android, its not all that slow really.
I have a nexus 4, which isn't low end but its no Galaxy S4 or iPhone 5 either as far as web performance goes, and for the vast majority of websites, it works just fine, with a few delays for ad-heavy sites, sites making heavy use of CSS transforms and animations (which are slow regardless of what you do with JavaScript...I'm being told the situation on iOS is much better), and a few outliers here and there that do things that could be considered edge cases. Sites using jQuery Mobile tend to be terrible, because its a terrible library, but even our main site with tens of thousands of lines of very complex and resource intensive javascript (a fairly advanced web app replicating desktop-like features) works ok, and we didn't even try to optimize it for mobile (we have a mobile specific version but it doesn't have all the features yet so its too early to compare).
But average websites like Slashdot (the normal site, not the crappy mobile one), anything google, news sites, blogs, what have you? The pages load pretty much instantly. How much faster do you really want it to go?
Some areas definitely nudge a little more in one direction than another... I live in the boston area, and don't drive (I'm 30, I just never needed to), and im a heck of a lot more scared of cyclists than cars. When I moved here, within 2 weeks I witnessed 3 distinct accidents where the cyclist was clearly at fault, ramming in cars that were stopped at a red light, one going full speed in an eldery woman crossing the street in broad day light at a major intersection (if he hadnt hit the lady, he would have been snapped by a car), and the amount of times I almost got hit by one while crossing the street is just nuts.
Translating the US tax code into software is probably a task rivaling some of the most complex software problems out there...and no one in their right mind will take that job if they can go elsewhere...
So you have a ridiculously complicated problem, worked on by several rejects (I'm not saying all of them are rejects, but probably a non-trivial amount. I'm sure SOME good devs actually work there willingly....).
The result must be an insane mess of crappy code...
smart tvs tend to have ads if they're hooked up. In many, many cases, that makes them -cheaper- than normal TVs with similar specs. And if you don't use the smart TV features, you don't get the ads....but you still get the cheaper price point.
It doesn't matter which you choose, which is the point.
As all browsers get faster, developers can write more complex applications (or...unfortunately, write worse code and no one will notice).
We have a very complex JavaScript app here, and as browsers get faster, we can add more features. We have to gracefully degrade for old versions of IE (not in term of features, but in term of how "pretty" these features are...animations and stuff) but that's it. If Firefox or whatever were not keeping up, we could not put these things in for just one browser, it wouldn't be worth it.
That changes nothing. If you're removing javascript from the equation, that means the service spitting out html needs to spit the entire page, and everything the ajax enabled page did on the client, on the server instead.
Data format changes exactly nothing here.
If you have 2 identical pages, one that updates via javascript/json, and one that refresh the whole page, but both looks exactly the same, yes, what you say is true. Its what we did back then when http request objects existed and the technique wasn't yet called "ajax".
In today's world however? The non-javascript page is so totally different in functionalities, you're doubling the work in all but the most simple of scenarios. Those scenarios are common, don't get me wrong. But they aren't the ones that take any kind of time, even if I had to do them 15 times instead of just once.
With the newer paradigms for usability, the semantic of the page for a non-javascript drive one would be completely different. Just take the example of a financial application, that has a grid with billions of rows with records updating in real time. The javascript one will be a grid that lazy loads and pool updates (or use websockets). The non-javascript one will have a refresh button and postback paging. The former can be a static html page with an ajax service. The later has to actually be dynamic using some kind of server language.
Its so totally different, you really need some kind of numbers to justify making the page essentially twice. If it only affects a very small percentage of users, its just not worth it. If you're in a field where laws apply, then you don't have a choice and you do it. If your application is targeted at a low end user segment that may have a lot of disabled users, then you do it. If your application has a very well defined user base, then you may just skip on it.
Now if you're talking a news site that just display text, and the twit devs decided to use jquery instead of CSS to do their layout...then yeah, I'm with you.
I don't know where you live, but in big city's downtowns, these things are big problems. One or two people yapping on the phone, 3-4 newborns crying themselves out, countless teens yelling at each other continually, a bunch of people hitting the back of your head with their feet while "getting comfortable" and leaning them on your seat, the bunch taking pictures or camcording the movie to post it on the net, and the countless people playing with their phone at max brightness (super distracting)....
Every additional bad habit that comes up just pile it up. And in this day and age, you won't get any support for complaining about it, no matter how polite (or not) you are. Everyone is either being an inconsiderate prick, or have been dealing with inconsiderate pricks for so long that they stopped trying.
Its not just in theaters either... Living in an apartment or condo without ultra restrictive rules and expecting to be able to sleep is not happening, even in high tech ultra insulated places. And even if they have the rules, without lawyers getting involved, they may as well not be there.
I'm not even that old (I'm 30), but its seriously getting ridiculous. Part of it is I'm from Canada, and it was seriously a cultural shock when I moved south of the border, how in every city I went, people were just dicks all around and would never be reasoned with. Even Toronto has nothing on the likes of Boston or NYC. Its easier to find peace and quiet in the middle of a mall in downtown Montreal than it is to find a theater where you can actually watch a movie or an apartment/condo where you can sleep in pass 7:30.
And why exactly should immigration be available to everyone? if you are unskilled and don't have family, what exactly are you bringing? And its not cultural diversity, because there are plenty of people with in demand skills that quality for visas, and even more that have (legal) families here. Same for a lot of other countries.
Pretty much any. The ones I have first hand experience with and where my anecdotes come from are Montreal (the average developer is so bad, anyone who can write a for loop can get a job), and Cambridge/Boston (much much higher standard, but the demand is ridiculous....so as long as you remember how to boot your computer, you can find a job).
In both cases I've seen people quite a few times, including very recently (a few months ago) who got fired for negligence/gross incompetence, no references, no CS or IT degree of any kind (in one case, no degree at all), very little experience (it was their first job), find another job in IT paying quite well for the region, within 2-3 weeks.
Even more recently in Boston, some dude I worked with who also got fired for being terrible, who had a criminal record, if you googled his name the first link was his mug shot for a crime he actually did commit (a relatively serious one too), and who got in trouble for sexual harassement, and has very obvious/noticable mental disorders... and he got hired in the financial sector for a relatively well known company. Not a terrible job either.
So again: if you're willing to relocate, and you know how to breath, you can get a job. H1-Bs in IT are for shitty jobs no one want to know, a last resort, or to save money in low demand areas where employers have the upper hand. Thats it.
Thats kind of the issue I have with these bills. You have millions of people who fully ignored laws they knew existed, in many cases living underground or at least off the map to some extent...but then they make friends, build a family, then everyone starts crying if you threaten to kick them out for what they did once they're caught.
During that time, people who did everything right, go through the appropriate processes and so on and so forth, have to dish out enormous amount of money and wait wait wait wait wait.
I do have a green card, but I "married" into it. And even with that, its taking forever and the process is annoying and expensive.
I know these people don't have it nearly as good as I do, and smuggling yourself in the country is far from fun, but they're basically being rewarded for having done it. And what about all the foreign people who stayed in their countries because they KNEW it was illegal to come here without appropriate visa? You're basically sending them a clear message: "You followed our laws. Thank you and screw you!"
What field and what location are we talking about? Lack of willingness (or simply not being able to for various reason) to relocate is definitely the only reason a qualified IT worker would have trouble getting a job.
Even if you were out of the market for 10+ years (I had a male friend who decided to raise his daughters at home instead of the stereotypical mother doing it...and he was able to come straight back in. It took a few months to get back into the interviewing groove, but not all that long compared to people generally complaining about having a hard time getting a job).
In the big tech centers, the qualification required to get a high paying job is "being able to breath". And sometimes they'll waive that one too, or so it feels.
Even factory workers and whatsnot will generally have an easy time if they can relocate, but that's the kicker: relocating for a low paying job is rarely an option.
Thats the main issue. There's plenty of jobs. They're just not always at the right places. In the IT sector, that can be solved by pushing telecommuting more. Other sectors are harder (you may be able to do a surgery remotely with modern tech, but doing nurse work remotely is probably a lot harder...).
People use Oracle because either they use something that depends on it (some other Oracle product, like their ERP, which has some value for certain high end segments of retail), or because they're extremely high end, where a support contract and the license cost is irrelevent compared to a very specific feature they need.
Its niche, but its a big buck niche with enough customers to prevent Oracle from dying...
Now there's all the medium sized companies that got suckered into using Oracle for no good reason. I feel for them.
I don't know if it changed but when I was in Canada, Netflix content was horribly outdated. In the US however, not so. They have a lot of brand new stuff.
Without DRM, someone could use a basic chrome plugin or a greasemonkey script to download the original video straight up, with virtually no need to rip anything.
Im not saying I agree, but its not as simple as you make it sound.
That said, Im curious how many people actually watch netflix online anymore, with the proliferation of set top boxes and netflix being built in every console, smart TVs and mobile devices under the sun.
Just on top of my head, at home we have 3 phones, 4 nintendo 3DS, WiiU, Xbox, blu ray player, the smart tv, the Roku and 2 android tablets with HDMI output that can run Netflix. Thats not counting any x86 machines....
Do you manage all your accounts individually, or are they forwards? If the later, someone would only need the master account to reset passwords all over the place. Of course, a lot of more critical sites won't let you reset passwords that easily, but many do, and unless you're living in a vacuum, you probably have accounts on those too.
You must only be involved in part of the hiring process or only deal with referrals. Having seen first hand the hiring process write recently, it's basically random and had very little to do about skill and everything to do with who you stumble on. Even the people involved in the process stress their ultra high false negative rate. Unless you get referred and skip the stupid parts in the process.
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You can use VS for android apps. Xamarin or whatever. I personally never used it, but one of my collegues makes android/iOS games on the side (pretty good ones....his last one made 30 grands in a month? So its no Angry Birds, but its not garbage either) using .NET, and you'd never be able to tell...it looks like any other "top notch" iOS or Android game. And if it can make a game, it can easily do most anything.
He wasn't even a .NET dev when he started...he tried objective C and stuff, said "fuck this", tried other options and settled on that. So I guess its not half bad.
Of course they're not tied to a unique session...they're "remember me" cookies. They're supposed to still work after you kill the session. And by definition they have very long expiration. Now, you can keep track on the server of which cookies you handed out, and if someone invalidates one (logs off), keep track of that and refuse the cookie if its provided again, but its a pretty rare implementation as its not really considered a big problem (as long as the cookies are only passed around via https...if they're not, its something else altogether).
Its not a big exploit nobody knew about or anything, it works that way by design. You can argue against that design, but its no discovery or anything...
Of course everything you described is the bare minimum for a modern IDE. Eclipse does have an advantage because it has more extensions written for it, but both IDEs have a ton (VS is also extremely extensible and has countless extensions written for it too).
But you're not helping your case if you only mention core IDE features. Issue tracking integration? ::GASPS:: stop the press!
Between web development, mobile development (mainly objective c and java), line of business apps, plugin devs, IT admins, database devs, etc, C/C++ devs are brutally outnumbered. Then of that small subset, take the ones that would use a full fledged IDE, and you end up with a VERY small subset. So yeah, when comparing IDEs, C++ devs are almost irrelevent.
You have to be more specific when you say stuff like that. VS does have all the basic refactorings, and has more in every version (not really worth talking about 2010 and earlier when we're in 2013).
Of course, whats build in is primitive compared to other IDEs, because of all the plugins and extensions that fill the gap. If you're one of the 2-3 VS users who don't use Resharper or other plugins, well, tough.
Flat fees. Its the same $50 to send $50 or to send 10 million, because its the same damn service. Nothing to do with the "1%".
Short of issues with CSS transforms and in some cases hardware acceleration in general on Android, its not all that slow really.
I have a nexus 4, which isn't low end but its no Galaxy S4 or iPhone 5 either as far as web performance goes, and for the vast majority of websites, it works just fine, with a few delays for ad-heavy sites, sites making heavy use of CSS transforms and animations (which are slow regardless of what you do with JavaScript...I'm being told the situation on iOS is much better), and a few outliers here and there that do things that could be considered edge cases. Sites using jQuery Mobile tend to be terrible, because its a terrible library, but even our main site with tens of thousands of lines of very complex and resource intensive javascript (a fairly advanced web app replicating desktop-like features) works ok, and we didn't even try to optimize it for mobile (we have a mobile specific version but it doesn't have all the features yet so its too early to compare).
But average websites like Slashdot (the normal site, not the crappy mobile one), anything google, news sites, blogs, what have you? The pages load pretty much instantly. How much faster do you really want it to go?
Some areas definitely nudge a little more in one direction than another... I live in the boston area, and don't drive (I'm 30, I just never needed to), and im a heck of a lot more scared of cyclists than cars. When I moved here, within 2 weeks I witnessed 3 distinct accidents where the cyclist was clearly at fault, ramming in cars that were stopped at a red light, one going full speed in an eldery woman crossing the street in broad day light at a major intersection (if he hadnt hit the lady, he would have been snapped by a car), and the amount of times I almost got hit by one while crossing the street is just nuts.
Translating the US tax code into software is probably a task rivaling some of the most complex software problems out there...and no one in their right mind will take that job if they can go elsewhere...
So you have a ridiculously complicated problem, worked on by several rejects (I'm not saying all of them are rejects, but probably a non-trivial amount. I'm sure SOME good devs actually work there willingly....).
The result must be an insane mess of crappy code...
smart tvs tend to have ads if they're hooked up. In many, many cases, that makes them -cheaper- than normal TVs with similar specs. And if you don't use the smart TV features, you don't get the ads....but you still get the cheaper price point.
Conversion rate on services that force you to create a separate account is impossibly low, unless its Facebook, and that has its own set of problems.
It doesn't matter which you choose, which is the point.
As all browsers get faster, developers can write more complex applications (or...unfortunately, write worse code and no one will notice).
We have a very complex JavaScript app here, and as browsers get faster, we can add more features. We have to gracefully degrade for old versions of IE (not in term of features, but in term of how "pretty" these features are...animations and stuff) but that's it. If Firefox or whatever were not keeping up, we could not put these things in for just one browser, it wouldn't be worth it.
That changes nothing. If you're removing javascript from the equation, that means the service spitting out html needs to spit the entire page, and everything the ajax enabled page did on the client, on the server instead.
Data format changes exactly nothing here.
If you have 2 identical pages, one that updates via javascript/json, and one that refresh the whole page, but both looks exactly the same, yes, what you say is true. Its what we did back then when http request objects existed and the technique wasn't yet called "ajax".
In today's world however? The non-javascript page is so totally different in functionalities, you're doubling the work in all but the most simple of scenarios. Those scenarios are common, don't get me wrong. But they aren't the ones that take any kind of time, even if I had to do them 15 times instead of just once.
With the newer paradigms for usability, the semantic of the page for a non-javascript drive one would be completely different. Just take the example of a financial application, that has a grid with billions of rows with records updating in real time. The javascript one will be a grid that lazy loads and pool updates (or use websockets). The non-javascript one will have a refresh button and postback paging. The former can be a static html page with an ajax service. The later has to actually be dynamic using some kind of server language.
Its so totally different, you really need some kind of numbers to justify making the page essentially twice. If it only affects a very small percentage of users, its just not worth it. If you're in a field where laws apply, then you don't have a choice and you do it. If your application is targeted at a low end user segment that may have a lot of disabled users, then you do it. If your application has a very well defined user base, then you may just skip on it.
Now if you're talking a news site that just display text, and the twit devs decided to use jquery instead of CSS to do their layout...then yeah, I'm with you.
I don't know where you live, but in big city's downtowns, these things are big problems. One or two people yapping on the phone, 3-4 newborns crying themselves out, countless teens yelling at each other continually, a bunch of people hitting the back of your head with their feet while "getting comfortable" and leaning them on your seat, the bunch taking pictures or camcording the movie to post it on the net, and the countless people playing with their phone at max brightness (super distracting)....
Every additional bad habit that comes up just pile it up. And in this day and age, you won't get any support for complaining about it, no matter how polite (or not) you are. Everyone is either being an inconsiderate prick, or have been dealing with inconsiderate pricks for so long that they stopped trying.
Its not just in theaters either... Living in an apartment or condo without ultra restrictive rules and expecting to be able to sleep is not happening, even in high tech ultra insulated places. And even if they have the rules, without lawyers getting involved, they may as well not be there.
I'm not even that old (I'm 30), but its seriously getting ridiculous. Part of it is I'm from Canada, and it was seriously a cultural shock when I moved south of the border, how in every city I went, people were just dicks all around and would never be reasoned with. Even Toronto has nothing on the likes of Boston or NYC. Its easier to find peace and quiet in the middle of a mall in downtown Montreal than it is to find a theater where you can actually watch a movie or an apartment/condo where you can sleep in pass 7:30.
Thats my point. People have trouble getting hired because they're at the wrong place at the wrong time.
A lot of the problem is simply a symptom of that. People in the US and Canada are too spread apart. That's a big chunk of the problem.
The other part, is a lot of people thinking they're awesome, when they really are not.
And why exactly should immigration be available to everyone? if you are unskilled and don't have family, what exactly are you bringing? And its not cultural diversity, because there are plenty of people with in demand skills that quality for visas, and even more that have (legal) families here. Same for a lot of other countries.
So what else?
Pretty much any. The ones I have first hand experience with and where my anecdotes come from are Montreal (the average developer is so bad, anyone who can write a for loop can get a job), and Cambridge/Boston (much much higher standard, but the demand is ridiculous....so as long as you remember how to boot your computer, you can find a job).
In both cases I've seen people quite a few times, including very recently (a few months ago) who got fired for negligence/gross incompetence, no references, no CS or IT degree of any kind (in one case, no degree at all), very little experience (it was their first job), find another job in IT paying quite well for the region, within 2-3 weeks.
Even more recently in Boston, some dude I worked with who also got fired for being terrible, who had a criminal record, if you googled his name the first link was his mug shot for a crime he actually did commit (a relatively serious one too), and who got in trouble for sexual harassement, and has very obvious/noticable mental disorders... and he got hired in the financial sector for a relatively well known company. Not a terrible job either.
So again: if you're willing to relocate, and you know how to breath, you can get a job. H1-Bs in IT are for shitty jobs no one want to know, a last resort, or to save money in low demand areas where employers have the upper hand. Thats it.
Thats kind of the issue I have with these bills. You have millions of people who fully ignored laws they knew existed, in many cases living underground or at least off the map to some extent...but then they make friends, build a family, then everyone starts crying if you threaten to kick them out for what they did once they're caught.
During that time, people who did everything right, go through the appropriate processes and so on and so forth, have to dish out enormous amount of money and wait wait wait wait wait.
I do have a green card, but I "married" into it. And even with that, its taking forever and the process is annoying and expensive.
I know these people don't have it nearly as good as I do, and smuggling yourself in the country is far from fun, but they're basically being rewarded for having done it. And what about all the foreign people who stayed in their countries because they KNEW it was illegal to come here without appropriate visa? You're basically sending them a clear message: "You followed our laws. Thank you and screw you!"
At least they didn't ask you for 10 years of hands on .NET experience in 2005....
What field and what location are we talking about? Lack of willingness (or simply not being able to for various reason) to relocate is definitely the only reason a qualified IT worker would have trouble getting a job.
Even if you were out of the market for 10+ years (I had a male friend who decided to raise his daughters at home instead of the stereotypical mother doing it...and he was able to come straight back in. It took a few months to get back into the interviewing groove, but not all that long compared to people generally complaining about having a hard time getting a job).
In the big tech centers, the qualification required to get a high paying job is "being able to breath". And sometimes they'll waive that one too, or so it feels.
Even factory workers and whatsnot will generally have an easy time if they can relocate, but that's the kicker: relocating for a low paying job is rarely an option.
Thats the main issue. There's plenty of jobs. They're just not always at the right places. In the IT sector, that can be solved by pushing telecommuting more. Other sectors are harder (you may be able to do a surgery remotely with modern tech, but doing nurse work remotely is probably a lot harder...).
People use Oracle because either they use something that depends on it (some other Oracle product, like their ERP, which has some value for certain high end segments of retail), or because they're extremely high end, where a support contract and the license cost is irrelevent compared to a very specific feature they need.
Its niche, but its a big buck niche with enough customers to prevent Oracle from dying...
Now there's all the medium sized companies that got suckered into using Oracle for no good reason. I feel for them.
I don't know if it changed but when I was in Canada, Netflix content was horribly outdated. In the US however, not so. They have a lot of brand new stuff.
Without DRM, someone could use a basic chrome plugin or a greasemonkey script to download the original video straight up, with virtually no need to rip anything.
Im not saying I agree, but its not as simple as you make it sound.
That said, Im curious how many people actually watch netflix online anymore, with the proliferation of set top boxes and netflix being built in every console, smart TVs and mobile devices under the sun.
Just on top of my head, at home we have 3 phones, 4 nintendo 3DS, WiiU, Xbox, blu ray player, the smart tv, the Roku and 2 android tablets with HDMI output that can run Netflix. Thats not counting any x86 machines....
Do you manage all your accounts individually, or are they forwards? If the later, someone would only need the master account to reset passwords all over the place. Of course, a lot of more critical sites won't let you reset passwords that easily, but many do, and unless you're living in a vacuum, you probably have accounts on those too.
You must only be involved in part of the hiring process or only deal with referrals. Having seen first hand the hiring process write recently, it's basically random and had very little to do about skill and everything to do with who you stumble on. Even the people involved in the process stress their ultra high false negative rate. Unless you get referred and skip the stupid parts in the process.