... presuming the problem gets solved on the first try. Take my cable company (Please!), I've had to call multiple times in order to finally find someone who actually (1) understood the problem I was having, and (2) was able to resolve it. And then there are those automated phone systems whose menu structure seems designed to discourage customers from wanting to talk with a real, live person.
... as being against the better interests of its customers. Sounds like an industry that is just crying out for some significant competition, and not the token competition that is touted nowadays.
If I code myself out of a job, I don't have a job?
If you automate your job to the point that what you had been hired for is no longer needed, then your job no longer exists. There may be a different job of tending to the automation, but that one has different job requirements and is not the one you were hired for.
As an employer, I would rather have someone on hand that knows how to automate their own job than someone that simply goes through the motions of a factory worker every day.
So would I, but that's not what this thread is about. It is about someone automating her job then doing nothing. As an employer, I'd want to find that employee another job where she can be productive (maybe automate another job) and not just sit around all day. If the person can repeat the automation for something else, I'd say there should also be a promotion/raise for that person, as she is helping the company's business more so than someone who just sits around.
...the employers would not consider the employee's needs when implementing automation, so ethically the inverse should be true....
Companies are in business to make money, and not be a day-care center for overachieving programmers. If an employee codes herself out of a job, then that employee should find another job to do. What you are describing is that the company should embrace a lazy employee because the company might use automation. That just makes no sense whatsoever.
... to not tell my employer I've automated my job?"
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Yes. No are no longer doing the job you were hired to do. Indeed, I'd say that, before you started to automate, you should have told your employer what you were planning to do, the benefits and the costs. Then you should have proceeded only if you had buy-in. If you didn't get buy-in, you obviously were over-qualified for the tasks at hand, and you should find a company that better appreciates your talents.
Even an iPhone needs some manner of instruction, it may not be a manual, but the instruction is needed. Typically, if you've never used on, there is someone nearby to help you get started.
even 80year olds can use them.
Yes, that is correct, after some amount of instruction of how to use them. Give an iPhone to an person in their 80s who has never seen a smartphone before, and come back with your observations.
He says it "brings legitimacy to [the] idea of the 'gut feeling' as a sixth sense."
"Gut feeling" and "sixth sense" have nothing to do with physical feelings within the gut. They are more of an intuition type of thing regarding the environment outside the body, not in the abdomen. Geesh.
Computers do not solve problems. Computers run programs written by humans. Those humans try to solve the problem via computers. When (if?) humans take responsibility for the problems they tell the computers to create, then and only then will we be able to better resolve the problems that face us.
We've been trained to be a consuming society of disposable goods. The latest and greatest feature will always be more important than something that is reliable and durable for the long haul.
You solve more than a few per day and then you're stuck in a validation loop that asks you to complete CAPTCHAs over and over again
I ran into the "insolvable" CAPTCHA problem this week. I wanted to sign into my account with a online retailer (large, well-known etailer), but there was a CAPTCHA that prevented me from logging in and placing my order. How stupid is that?
... but because wireless is easier for the industry to deploy. It doesn't matter if customers do not agree that wireless is good enough to replace broadband. All that matters is that the industry can convince an industry-friendly FCC to rule that wireless is good enough.
They could have used any of the cert providers that use the "do you own the domain" email verification. That includes most of the cert vendors for the low-security certs (including Comodo when I had used them).
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... presuming the problem gets solved on the first try. Take my cable company (Please!), I've had to call multiple times in order to finally find someone who actually (1) understood the problem I was having, and (2) was able to resolve it. And then there are those automated phone systems whose menu structure seems designed to discourage customers from wanting to talk with a real, live person.
... as being against the better interests of its customers. Sounds like an industry that is just crying out for some significant competition, and not the token competition that is touted nowadays.
Troll? I obviously hit a nerve somewhere. :)
If I code myself out of a job, I don't have a job?
If you automate your job to the point that what you had been hired for is no longer needed, then your job no longer exists. There may be a different job of tending to the automation, but that one has different job requirements and is not the one you were hired for.
As an employer, I would rather have someone on hand that knows how to automate their own job than someone that simply goes through the motions of a factory worker every day.
So would I, but that's not what this thread is about. It is about someone automating her job then doing nothing. As an employer, I'd want to find that employee another job where she can be productive (maybe automate another job) and not just sit around all day. If the person can repeat the automation for something else, I'd say there should also be a promotion/raise for that person, as she is helping the company's business more so than someone who just sits around.
Somebody's gotta push the button.
Yes, but that somebody does not need to be a high paid programmer.
If the work's getting done then you're doing the job you were hired for.
The code is doing the work, not you. Your job (as described in the job description) no longer exists. You are now redundant.
...the employers would not consider the employee's needs when implementing automation, so ethically the inverse should be true....
Companies are in business to make money, and not be a day-care center for overachieving programmers. If an employee codes herself out of a job, then that employee should find another job to do. What you are describing is that the company should embrace a lazy employee because the company might use automation. That just makes no sense whatsoever.
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Yes. No are no longer doing the job you were hired to do. Indeed, I'd say that, before you started to automate, you should have told your employer what you were planning to do, the benefits and the costs. Then you should have proceeded only if you had buy-in. If you didn't get buy-in, you obviously were over-qualified for the tasks at hand, and you should find a company that better appreciates your talents.
Or the decline in the breadth of Netflix content combined with the threat of ads on Netflix?
Software updates that add and/or remove features quickly make the printed manual you got with the item obsolete.
Just buy an iPhone, it needs no manuals,
Even an iPhone needs some manner of instruction, it may not be a manual, but the instruction is needed. Typically, if you've never used on, there is someone nearby to help you get started.
even 80year olds can use them.
Yes, that is correct, after some amount of instruction of how to use them. Give an iPhone to an person in their 80s who has never seen a smartphone before, and come back with your observations.
Cost and lack of a general need. Who reads manuals? Really, who reads manuals that cannot download one?
Of course, that would stop some 1980's nostalgia dance craze recreations....
...share that information "with first responders to inform and improve their police response to the incident."
Shouldn't such improvements in response be the norm, not the outlier?
... permission to access various parts of your phone, you also giving that same permission to everything that runs in the browser?
He says it "brings legitimacy to [the] idea of the 'gut feeling' as a sixth sense."
"Gut feeling" and "sixth sense" have nothing to do with physical feelings within the gut. They are more of an intuition type of thing regarding the environment outside the body, not in the abdomen. Geesh.
"Computers can solve your problem.
Computers do not solve problems. Computers run programs written by humans. Those humans try to solve the problem via computers. When (if?) humans take responsibility for the problems they tell the computers to create, then and only then will we be able to better resolve the problems that face us.
Sold out by their own lobbyists.
That's the sad part of all this.
Next question.
We've been trained to be a consuming society of disposable goods. The latest and greatest feature will always be more important than something that is reliable and durable for the long haul.
You solve more than a few per day and then you're stuck in a validation loop that asks you to complete CAPTCHAs over and over again
I ran into the "insolvable" CAPTCHA problem this week. I wanted to sign into my account with a online retailer (large, well-known etailer), but there was a CAPTCHA that prevented me from logging in and placing my order. How stupid is that?
... but because wireless is easier for the industry to deploy. It doesn't matter if customers do not agree that wireless is good enough to replace broadband. All that matters is that the industry can convince an industry-friendly FCC to rule that wireless is good enough.
Cloudflare shudda used "blockchain" in the PR headline, it would have gotten a lot more attention.
I sleep better knowing that HTTPS has made us all safe from teh hax0rs.
If that is what you think the purpose of https is, then you really should not be sleeping better, you should be learning more about https.
...Could have used Let's Encrypt....
They could have used any of the cert providers that use the "do you own the domain" email verification. That includes most of the cert vendors for the low-security certs (including Comodo when I had used them).