"Web developer" has a stigma due to the early days of people learning HTML and using FrontPage and comparing themselves to people who actually used a programming language. I think the fact that web applications attract the most new people is why this stigma still exists. Who knows? I generally tune it out and judge people by their ability not by their chosen specialization.
And when your Java application goes to shit you're going to call Oracle?
Being a mature language, it's not that hard to find a Java developer. With enterprise software you have to think about language features and support staff turnaround.
Sure sounds a lot better than many of the other fads out there.
You lost me on that one. Java was first released in 1995. Node.js is about two years old and is still at a 0.10 version release. PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Python all have longevity and developer base supporting them. Let's give Node.js some time to mature before we start accusing other platforms of being "fads".
Actually Android suffers from the same hardware limits as iOS. For example the latest version from CyanogenMod you can get on the HTC G1 is "froyo" while the MyTouch 4G only supports up to "gingerbread".
You can only squeeze so much features on older hardware with slower CPUs and more importantly smaller memory.
Apparently you believe Snowden is a saint, no matter what.
I have doubts on how much he actually had access to. Most of what he revealed was already speculated in the press. The only subject matter that Snowden may have some credibility is his original email surveillance disclosure. Everything else doesn't appear as credible since it was already speculated in the press prior to Snowden's rise to "sainthood".
Nice try. I still assert that Snowden will try anything and everything possible to keep publicity on himself.
Snowden's desire to remain in the news and the paper's decision to wait until after the story broke to publish these questions are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah it's BS and he made it up, that's why they're hunting him.
Maybe they are hunting him down for divulging information about the email surveillance program that he was under contract to interpret the information. This one fact that he revealed doesn't make the other facts any more credible. It is more likely that his 15 minutes of press exposure is almost up and he'll claim to know more than he actually knows to either remain in the spotlight or make himself appear more valuable to potential host countries.
No one is questioning the information he leaked that was directly handled by him. We are questioning all this new insight that he claims to have on old subjects that were already speculated heavily in the news.
Information about stuxnet was already leaked to the press and allegedly by retired Marine General James Cartwright. I think it is more likely he is just repeating what he heard speculated in the news already and tried to use his former position to give himself credibility. According to the Der Spiegel article they were trying to evaluate if he was truly a NSA whistleblower, so they submitted some questions to him via email and received his prepared answers. He had plenty of time to look for information already in the news.
The paper must not have thought much about the credibility of their informant since they chose not to run the story until after Snowden made himself known to the public in Hong Kong.
For a field that is suppose to be highly compartmentalized, Snowden is claiming to know a lot of information. He is so desperate to stay in the news that I think he is resorted to parroting what was speculated in the news almost a year ago.
No. The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the US government. Basically this means that the agency is outside of the President's direct control. The USPS is definitely not a private corporation.
Just think of USPS practice as being similar to Google. They scan the outside of your mail to deliver targeted law enforcement and don't share the information with any third-party entities.
Easy. If something bad happens at the destination like possibly a mail bomb. The USPS would have a photograph of all the packages that went to that location.
I think the value is more forensic after the fact than preventative.
They don't get a special pass because they's da guberment!
Logic dictates that if you don't want the government to know you shipped something, you shouldn't ask the government to do it for you.
Also the USPS is only taking pictures of the outside of the mail. Technically they only really know where the mail is going. So it would be more accurate to say:
If you don't want the government to know what your mail looks like, then don't ask the government to deliver it to you.
You asking the government to deliver something for you and they record the shipment is different than the government demanding you submit a list of your facebook friends.
I agree. Forbes reported that the average employer contributed $4,508/yr towards single coverage.
However, $3000/yr = $250/month is still cheaper than actually providing insurance and amount to nothing more than a tax on companies that refuse to provide health insurance to offset the expense of the expanded medicaid coverage. This sounds reasonable since the employers that don't provide health insurance tend to be the ones that offer low wages and the employees would be eligible for the expanded medicaid.
Because the SCOTUS ruling allows states to refuse to expand medicaid, this caused complications since in those states the employers would be fined even though the state wouldn't use the money to cover the employees with medicaid. This may be the ultimate reason behind delay.
Wrong! States had a choice, take money/accept federal controls/create exchanges OR let the feds create exchanges.
You forgot the third choice that was created with the SCOTUS ruling over the constitutionality of ACA (NFIB v Medicaid) that gave the states the right to refuse to expand Medicaid. This allows the states to continue to deny health insurance to the poor and most republican governors have taken that option.
It's one of many of those details I was talking about...
It not a matter of Obama holding up his end... It is more about the republican governors who would rather derail the affordable health care act by stonewalling the creation of insurance exchanges in their state despite the federal government's willingness to pay for it. The irony being that the exchange idea was the republicans' idea to introduce a free market element to universal health care. Like most things involving republicans it is either filibustered, procedural traps, sabotaging legislation with bad provisions, or in this case all of the above.
Sadly I think the US missed an opportunity to have an excellent universal healthcare system, but the two political parties acted like spoiled brats. The left think their way is the only way, and the right for being in bed with the corporations and doing everything they can to protect their friends at the expense of the country. If they were really looking out for our interests they would have worked together. Instead we had both parties having closed door meetings figuring out how to out maneuver the other party.
I love it when people conveniently ignore the details...
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"Web developer" has a stigma due to the early days of people learning HTML and using FrontPage and comparing themselves to people who actually used a programming language. I think the fact that web applications attract the most new people is why this stigma still exists. Who knows? I generally tune it out and judge people by their ability not by their chosen specialization.
Being a mature language, it's not that hard to find a Java developer. With enterprise software you have to think about language features and support staff turnaround.
You lost me on that one. Java was first released in 1995. Node.js is about two years old and is still at a 0.10 version release. PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Python all have longevity and developer base supporting them. Let's give Node.js some time to mature before we start accusing other platforms of being "fads".
Actually Android suffers from the same hardware limits as iOS. For example the latest version from CyanogenMod you can get on the HTC G1 is "froyo" while the MyTouch 4G only supports up to "gingerbread".
You can only squeeze so much features on older hardware with slower CPUs and more importantly smaller memory.
Apparently you believe Snowden is a saint, no matter what.
I have doubts on how much he actually had access to. Most of what he revealed was already speculated in the press. The only subject matter that Snowden may have some credibility is his original email surveillance disclosure. Everything else doesn't appear as credible since it was already speculated in the press prior to Snowden's rise to "sainthood".
PRISM, Enchelon, Carnivore... this is nothing new.
No they wouldn't because that would make him a martyr. It's best to let Snowden stay isolated and eventually he'll fade into obscurity.
Nice try. I still assert that Snowden will try anything and everything possible to keep publicity on himself.
Snowden's desire to remain in the news and the paper's decision to wait until after the story broke to publish these questions are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah it's BS and he made it up, that's why they're hunting him.
Maybe they are hunting him down for divulging information about the email surveillance program that he was under contract to interpret the information. This one fact that he revealed doesn't make the other facts any more credible. It is more likely that his 15 minutes of press exposure is almost up and he'll claim to know more than he actually knows to either remain in the spotlight or make himself appear more valuable to potential host countries.
No one is questioning the information he leaked that was directly handled by him. We are questioning all this new insight that he claims to have on old subjects that were already speculated heavily in the news.
Information about stuxnet was already leaked to the press and allegedly by retired Marine General James Cartwright. I think it is more likely he is just repeating what he heard speculated in the news already and tried to use his former position to give himself credibility. According to the Der Spiegel article they were trying to evaluate if he was truly a NSA whistleblower, so they submitted some questions to him via email and received his prepared answers. He had plenty of time to look for information already in the news.
The paper must not have thought much about the credibility of their informant since they chose not to run the story until after Snowden made himself known to the public in Hong Kong.
For a field that is suppose to be highly compartmentalized, Snowden is claiming to know a lot of information. He is so desperate to stay in the news that I think he is resorted to parroting what was speculated in the news almost a year ago.
What? I was making a joke. Admittedly not a very good one.
I have made no errors to weasel out of. You're just experiencing wishful thinking.
Just answering a question in your comment.
MVC was introduced in 1978's as part of the work by Xerox PARC.
Well said.
No. The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the US government. Basically this means that the agency is outside of the President's direct control. The USPS is definitely not a private corporation.
Ad hominem attacks also don't add any credence to your arguments.
Just think of USPS practice as being similar to Google. They scan the outside of your mail to deliver targeted law enforcement and don't share the information with any third-party entities.
Reductio ad absurdum doesn't add any credence to your argument.
Easy. If something bad happens at the destination like possibly a mail bomb. The USPS would have a photograph of all the packages that went to that location.
I think the value is more forensic after the fact than preventative.
I didn't see this gem:
Logic dictates that if you don't want the government to know you shipped something, you shouldn't ask the government to do it for you.
Also the USPS is only taking pictures of the outside of the mail. Technically they only really know where the mail is going. So it would be more accurate to say:
If you don't want the government to know what your mail looks like, then don't ask the government to deliver it to you.
Explain to me how recording the shipment prevents them from delivering it? You got what you paid for.
You asking the government to deliver something for you and they record the shipment is different than the government demanding you submit a list of your facebook friends.
I agree. Forbes reported that the average employer contributed $4,508/yr towards single coverage.
However, $3000/yr = $250/month is still cheaper than actually providing insurance and amount to nothing more than a tax on companies that refuse to provide health insurance to offset the expense of the expanded medicaid coverage. This sounds reasonable since the employers that don't provide health insurance tend to be the ones that offer low wages and the employees would be eligible for the expanded medicaid.
Because the SCOTUS ruling allows states to refuse to expand medicaid, this caused complications since in those states the employers would be fined even though the state wouldn't use the money to cover the employees with medicaid. This may be the ultimate reason behind delay.
You forgot the third choice that was created with the SCOTUS ruling over the constitutionality of ACA (NFIB v Medicaid) that gave the states the right to refuse to expand Medicaid. This allows the states to continue to deny health insurance to the poor and most republican governors have taken that option.
It's one of many of those details I was talking about...
It not a matter of Obama holding up his end... It is more about the republican governors who would rather derail the affordable health care act by stonewalling the creation of insurance exchanges in their state despite the federal government's willingness to pay for it. The irony being that the exchange idea was the republicans' idea to introduce a free market element to universal health care. Like most things involving republicans it is either filibustered, procedural traps, sabotaging legislation with bad provisions, or in this case all of the above.
Sadly I think the US missed an opportunity to have an excellent universal healthcare system, but the two political parties acted like spoiled brats. The left think their way is the only way, and the right for being in bed with the corporations and doing everything they can to protect their friends at the expense of the country. If they were really looking out for our interests they would have worked together. Instead we had both parties having closed door meetings figuring out how to out maneuver the other party.
I love it when people conveniently ignore the details...
Don't forget the blazing torch. Frankenstein's monster was more afraid of the torches than the pitchforks. Besides it's traditional.