The IBM Selectric II was in the principal's office. I was fascinated with spinning silver ball that put black letters on white paper. I later got a toy typewriter. As I got older, I had two manual and one electronic typewriters from Brother. The electronic typewriter lasted 20 years and carried me through college when instructors weren't accepting printouts from NLQ dot matrix and laser printers. Never got around to owning an IBM typewriter.
As I recall, Bezos is pumping money back in to acquisitions and expanding the company and pumping the stock price, but are the actually profitable yet?
AWS, Amazon's cloud service, is hugely profitable. The rest of the company is a game of musical chairs. When the music stops and shareholders take notice, expect Amazon to crash hard.
You'd think the fat asshole's arms would be too tired to type after his 8000 pound cable row sessions.
Cable rows affect the middle back muscles and makes me tired in a good way. I've been typing on typewriters and keyboards since kindergarten, so my finger muscles are will developed.
A bubble is when your mother gives you stock tips for the latest technology startups. That's a good sign to get out of the market while fools are still rushing in.
Is "Explodes" a metaphor or a prescient description of the future under, "A.I."?
I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories from the early 1980's, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. The only thing that almost exploded was the nuclear bomb that the military installed just in case the AI went kablooey.
So more luxury apartments mean that the rent goes down for everyone (unless there was an oversupply, which there isn't in the Bay Area).
My 50-year-old apartment complex charges the same rental rate as the brand new luxury apartment complex down the street. The only time rental rates stand still is when the stock market crashes (i.e., dot com bust and great recession) and a million people move out of Silicon Valley.
It's not the cost of construction. Developers build "luxury" housing because it has higher profit margins. Convincing developers to build other kinds of housing with lower profit margins is a tough sell.
My government IT job is in Palo Alto. When we had an open position, I told recruiters not to hire anyone from the East Bay because traffic is hell on earth once they get off the Dumbarton Bridge. If they do hire someone from the East Bay, they should be willing to take public transit. The last two guys from the East Bay quit because they couldn't handle the commute in their cars and didn't want to take public transit. I take public transit because I'm not insane enough to drive beyond the 280/85 interchange into Palo Alto.
Work with the upstream project to help them build python3 support, and in the meantime, make use of python 2.
Except that I don't have Python 2 installed because I'm using Python 3 exclusively. That seems to be an issue on Slashdot. I don't get any crap on the Python dev list for using Python 3 exclusively.
I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. Be careful about embracing the AI. The AI just might embrace back.
As such, you want the best possible service for the lowest possible cost.
I once worked at a Fortune 500 company that insisted that the help desk provider "double the performance for half the cost"
as the primary metric. Last I heard they went through six help desk providers, downsized from 30 people to a half-dozen, and still haven't met that metric..
That's just a left handed way of asking that all candidates be good bullshitters. That's just a left handed way of asking that all candidates be good bullshitters.
It's a right handed way for technology companies to claim to the government that they can't find qualified Americans to hire and need to hire foreign workers instead. Never mind that foreign workers are any more qualified than American workers.
Was that just before they fired you three months early because you were doing the janitor's work?
Nope. I finished the one-year contract three months ahead of schedule and fired myself. Thank God that I did. I've never worked in a hostile environment where every single person hated the IT department. I had to point out to everyone that I was a contractor and I was there to help them.
...so in other words, hire someone competent while you empty out the storage locker?
When I cleared out the storage closet for a local hospital,
I found a 56" plasma TV that cost $10K brand new and was "lost" for seven years because it was buried in 600-sqft of IT crap. When I brought it to the attention of the IT manager, he had his IT guys test it and then put it up on the wall that it was originally supposed to go on.:/
Employers are always looking for five years of experience in a technology that came out six months earlier. Yes, Virginia, IT is regarded as a cost center by most bean counters.
Ensure they have the software and tools that are needed over the short courses to allow students in the USA to transition to the workforce.
Be careful not to be too specific on what tools to use. My community college taught all flavors of Java because local technology companies insisted that they wanted C/C++
programmers with Visual Studio experience and there was no money to renew the Microsoft site license. The dean offered to teach C/C++ under Linux but the administration stuck to the surveys. When the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run Visual Studio.NET (the latest and the greatest at the time). The dean had us boot into Red Hat Linux and taught us C/C++ with gcc for the rest of the semester, as the textbook could be taught either way.
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Yeah, they had "typewriters" in kindergarten.
The IBM Selectric II was in the principal's office. I was fascinated with spinning silver ball that put black letters on white paper. I later got a toy typewriter. As I got older, I had two manual and one electronic typewriters from Brother. The electronic typewriter lasted 20 years and carried me through college when instructors weren't accepting printouts from NLQ dot matrix and laser printers. Never got around to owning an IBM typewriter.
As I recall, Bezos is pumping money back in to acquisitions and expanding the company and pumping the stock price, but are the actually profitable yet?
AWS, Amazon's cloud service, is hugely profitable. The rest of the company is a game of musical chairs. When the music stops and shareholders take notice, expect Amazon to crash hard.
You'd think the fat asshole's arms would be too tired to type after his 8000 pound cable row sessions.
Cable rows affect the middle back muscles and makes me tired in a good way. I've been typing on typewriters and keyboards since kindergarten, so my finger muscles are will developed.
Are you such a lazy fat asshole you copy/paste your Amazon spam here?
Since I have a Python script to pull my comment history from Slashdot, I've been copying and pasting relevant comments for several months now.
Amazon is cheapening Whole Foods to be less than Trader Joe's but more like Safeway. As if we needed another Safeway in Silicon Valley.
A bubble is when your mother gives you stock tips for the latest technology startups. That's a good sign to get out of the market while fools are still rushing in.
Is "Explodes" a metaphor or a prescient description of the future under, "A.I."?
I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories from the early 1980's, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. The only thing that almost exploded was the nuclear bomb that the military installed just in case the AI went kablooey.
The exploding AI is the replacement for the blue screen of death.
Casey Neistat did a review of "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. I haven't read it yet but looks like a good read.
https://youtu.be/7-nzTfv5IZY?t=88
So more luxury apartments mean that the rent goes down for everyone (unless there was an oversupply, which there isn't in the Bay Area).
My 50-year-old apartment complex charges the same rental rate as the brand new luxury apartment complex down the street. The only time rental rates stand still is when the stock market crashes (i.e., dot com bust and great recession) and a million people move out of Silicon Valley.
It's not the cost of construction. Developers build "luxury" housing because it has higher profit margins. Convincing developers to build other kinds of housing with lower profit margins is a tough sell.
My government IT job is in Palo Alto. When we had an open position, I told recruiters not to hire anyone from the East Bay because traffic is hell on earth once they get off the Dumbarton Bridge. If they do hire someone from the East Bay, they should be willing to take public transit. The last two guys from the East Bay quit because they couldn't handle the commute in their cars and didn't want to take public transit. I take public transit because I'm not insane enough to drive beyond the 280/85 interchange into Palo Alto.
I still have my Google gym shorts from the last time that I did a contract job for them.
Work with the upstream project to help them build python3 support, and in the meantime, make use of python 2.
Except that I don't have Python 2 installed because I'm using Python 3 exclusively. That seems to be an issue on Slashdot. I don't get any crap on the Python dev list for using Python 3 exclusively.
security is about depth, Identity is the most critical, then server config, lastly network.
I've seen that list in reverse order: network, server and identity. Maybe I've read too many Cisco books.
I just finished re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow," the first novel in "Cyber Rogue" by James P. Hogan, one of my favorite SF stories, where scientists set up an advanced AI to manage a space station and the military went to war to determine whether or not they could pull the plug if the AI determines that humans are a nuisance. Be careful about embracing the AI. The AI just might embrace back.
Using a piece of python 2.7 code is trivially easy - install 2.7, set up a virtualenv for the tool you need to use, and you're done.
Are you planning to use virtualenv for when Python 2.7 comes to an end in 2020?
https://pythonclock.org/
If you're crazy enough to reinvent the wheel poorly, you deserve the pain you're incurring.
That's funny. Instagram made a smooth transition from Python 2 to Python 3.
https://slashdot.org/submission/7142015/instagram-makes-a-smooth-move-to-python-3
As such, you want the best possible service for the lowest possible cost.
I once worked at a Fortune 500 company that insisted that the help desk provider "double the performance for half the cost" as the primary metric. Last I heard they went through six help desk providers, downsized from 30 people to a half-dozen, and still haven't met that metric..
That's just a left handed way of asking that all candidates be good bullshitters. That's just a left handed way of asking that all candidates be good bullshitters.
It's a right handed way for technology companies to claim to the government that they can't find qualified Americans to hire and need to hire foreign workers instead. Never mind that foreign workers are any more qualified than American workers.
Was that just before they fired you three months early because you were doing the janitor's work?
Nope. I finished the one-year contract three months ahead of schedule and fired myself. Thank God that I did. I've never worked in a hostile environment where every single person hated the IT department. I had to point out to everyone that I was a contractor and I was there to help them.
the basics should start by looking at your identity and identity management, if you are reliant on network security you have already lost.
I'm sure identity management is quite effective against SMBv1.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3185535/guidelines-for-blocking-specific-firewall-ports-to-prevent-smb-traffic-from-leaving-the-corporate-environment
...so in other words, hire someone competent while you empty out the storage locker?
When I cleared out the storage closet for a local hospital, I found a 56" plasma TV that cost $10K brand new and was "lost" for seven years because it was buried in 600-sqft of IT crap. When I brought it to the attention of the IT manager, he had his IT guys test it and then put it up on the wall that it was originally supposed to go on. :/
Employers are always looking for five years of experience in a technology that came out six months earlier. Yes, Virginia, IT is regarded as a cost center by most bean counters.
Ensure they have the software and tools that are needed over the short courses to allow students in the USA to transition to the workforce.
Be careful not to be too specific on what tools to use. My community college taught all flavors of Java because local technology companies insisted that they wanted C/C++ programmers with Visual Studio experience and there was no money to renew the Microsoft site license. The dean offered to teach C/C++ under Linux but the administration stuck to the surveys. When the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run Visual Studio .NET (the latest and the greatest at the time). The dean had us boot into Red Hat Linux and taught us C/C++ with gcc for the rest of the semester, as the textbook could be taught either way.
One network port at a time.