At some point getting stuff to work is more important to the fad-du-jour. We had Perl. Then a few years ago everyone had a hard-on for Ruby ZOMG everyone start over. Now Python of all things is all the rage. By 2017 something else will be.
Not retooling every few years for no better reason than being hip isn't the same as refusing to learn. Each batch of kids out of school bring a new fad, because the concept of mature, well-understood tech is beyond them. They don't have to maintain commercial-quality systems or do anything with a lifetime longer than a semester.
Here's a wacky idea: Working together instead of cultivating us-vs-them.
For sure the always-on, always-competing atmosphere in the silly valley is a turnoff for grownups.
But it's also true that the kids don't mind squeezing N roommates into a shitty rental with 2 hours commuting every day. Those >40 are much more likely to have families to support, which is incompatible with the absurd housing market there
In the 1990's I was passed over for promotion to manager in favor of someone without Y chromosomes. The execs used weasel words but made that very clear. The person who got the job was miserable at it and left after a few months to be a florist.
In the context of TFA, isn't this tantamount to "Separate but equal"?
When I was in college, nobody discouraged the relatively few women in the CS classes. At worst some of us were afraid of them, because girls.
Exactly. I have a paperwhite that I take on flights to read. The battery lasts weeks; a phone or tablet invariably runs out in a few hours, and in 2015 power outlets of any kind at seats are still unicorns. It's a fraction the size and weight, a quarter the cost of a tablet and being rubbery and cheap with little personal info I don't have to be as paranoid about theft.
Twitter used to run on an enterprise hosting service, bare metal, Cassandra, Hadoop etc. They decided one day to insource and left the service holding the bag on leases for 2900 HP servers.
So, you assert that such purchases should always be planned days ahead of time, so that one can burn two hours on hold and being transferred, then only executed during banking hours?
Feh.
I read "Many users have surmised that new restrictions in file permissions in El Capitan" and my first thought was that there is now roughly zero chance that Adobe will ever fix the anomalous problem of Lightroom claiming that it can't properly delete files.
Two of my Amazon interviews and all with Google were clearly ones where they had no intent from the start of seriously considering me. I don't even bother any more when their recruiters come knocking, they're just wasting my time.
It's easy to game your stats when you demand knowledge irrelevant to the job, but only from middle-aged citizens with families.
The very first Amazon interview in the 1990's their excuse was that I didn't live within 5 minutes of downtown.
Agreed. Anyone regularly mistaking their phone for a TV can spare a second to look at the icons to see the connection type in effect.
Most likely those would get burned are those doing dumb stuff in the first place, including skimping on their data plans.
Back in the day my employer provided a certain service to MSFT. They had us spend half a million bucks designing and implementing a scaled-up feature-increased system, then they decided to insource on NT because we weren't running it. We could have forged headers to masquerade but no. So we were screwed and their insourcing was a disaster for millions of users.
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One would think that the first day of Electrician 101 covers the idea of checking vs assuming.
At some point getting stuff to work is more important to the fad-du-jour. We had Perl. Then a few years ago everyone had a hard-on for Ruby ZOMG everyone start over. Now Python of all things is all the rage. By 2017 something else will be. Not retooling every few years for no better reason than being hip isn't the same as refusing to learn. Each batch of kids out of school bring a new fad, because the concept of mature, well-understood tech is beyond them. They don't have to maintain commercial-quality systems or do anything with a lifetime longer than a semester. Here's a wacky idea: Working together instead of cultivating us-vs-them.
Uh, what comment?? Yours is the first post.
And is that investment paid for only by monthly access fees, or also by income / sales taxes?
Which they call an "isotope" of Pu :roll eyes:
For sure the always-on, always-competing atmosphere in the silly valley is a turnoff for grownups. But it's also true that the kids don't mind squeezing N roommates into a shitty rental with 2 hours commuting every day. Those >40 are much more likely to have families to support, which is incompatible with the absurd housing market there
Are they recruiting for jobs, though, or contracts? The vast majority of contacts I get are for the latter.
The question really is as to why anyone cares that deeply about the content. The answer is pretension.
In the 1990's I was passed over for promotion to manager in favor of someone without Y chromosomes. The execs used weasel words but made that very clear. The person who got the job was miserable at it and left after a few months to be a florist. In the context of TFA, isn't this tantamount to "Separate but equal"? When I was in college, nobody discouraged the relatively few women in the CS classes. At worst some of us were afraid of them, because girls.
Exactly. I have a paperwhite that I take on flights to read. The battery lasts weeks; a phone or tablet invariably runs out in a few hours, and in 2015 power outlets of any kind at seats are still unicorns. It's a fraction the size and weight, a quarter the cost of a tablet and being rubbery and cheap with little personal info I don't have to be as paranoid about theft.
Twitter used to run on an enterprise hosting service, bare metal, Cassandra, Hadoop etc. They decided one day to insource and left the service holding the bag on leases for 2900 HP servers.
This.
Is that worth the APR doubling that they enact when they buy the bank you actually signed up with? Not for me.
So, you assert that such purchases should always be planned days ahead of time, so that one can burn two hours on hold and being transferred, then only executed during banking hours? Feh.
CapitalOne is distinctly worse than average, as is Bank of America.
I read "Many users have surmised that new restrictions in file permissions in El Capitan" and my first thought was that there is now roughly zero chance that Adobe will ever fix the anomalous problem of Lightroom claiming that it can't properly delete files.
Glad I'm not the only one. I just can't tell WTF the poster was trying to say. CTC??? Best guess via the google is Cut The Check ? 10+3? 13? Huh?
It's nearly impossible to prove.
Two of my Amazon interviews and all with Google were clearly ones where they had no intent from the start of seriously considering me. I don't even bother any more when their recruiters come knocking, they're just wasting my time. It's easy to game your stats when you demand knowledge irrelevant to the job, but only from middle-aged citizens with families. The very first Amazon interview in the 1990's their excuse was that I didn't live within 5 minutes of downtown.
I get this madness all the time. The best was the three month admin assistant gig in Tallahassee.
Amortize the cost of the car itself and maintenance.
Agreed. Anyone regularly mistaking their phone for a TV can spare a second to look at the icons to see the connection type in effect. Most likely those would get burned are those doing dumb stuff in the first place, including skimping on their data plans.
You forgot 6) The bullies get all the blowjobs and give all the scars.
No, we didn't. Those of us being bullied by your kind were miserable, the ones who survived that is. I would be dead were it not for Zoloft.
Back in the day my employer provided a certain service to MSFT. They had us spend half a million bucks designing and implementing a scaled-up feature-increased system, then they decided to insource on NT because we weren't running it. We could have forged headers to masquerade but no. So we were screwed and their insourcing was a disaster for millions of users.