You really need to know how to chew using RoR because you will need chew you arm off at some point. Forget something else, like programming your VCR, and re-learn how to chew.
I am 57 and still coding. I took care of the management issue by being a principle in every company I worked at for the last 30 years. It is a pain to code and do the books and deal with personnel, but it is worth the effort.
It isn't hard to learn new the languages if you can forget about the basics you learned years ago. It isn't the syntax, it is the paradigms. That, and figuring out how to get around all of the 'tools' that are supposed to make you more productive.
The hardest thing is trying to convince someone that even though you want to charge them twice as much as a rookie just out of Brown Institute, you will produce a better product in one third the time. It is difficult to find companies that want to pay for the experience gained over 35 years. And, that experience is not just in what makes a good program, but what makes a good product.
If you still want to feel the exhilaration of writing golden code in a product that solves someone's problem, keep fighting the fight wherever the battle takes you. If you are tired and coded out, hang up the coding sheet and move on.
Unless you have a tablet or smaller device, WiFi will be useless on an airplane because as soon as you fire up your laptop, sign up, and pay your fee, the old lady in the seat in front of you will fully recline her seat. You won't be able to open your laptop more than an inch or so, unless you forgo your tray table. And, if you politely ask her to pull her seat up a bit, she will turn into the old lady that walked across the ceiling in that shitty apocalypse movie from a couple of years ago.
The airlines should set aside a section of seats with more space between seats, power outlets, and dedicated attendants for the people who want to pay extra to work while flying. Throw in a dedicated head and free drinks and it might almost be worth it.
If someone took my picture without my permission, or over my objection, is there something in the law that would prevent me from getting my picture back?
A few months ago I had to reiterate my objection to having my picture taken several times. I knew the photographer was planning on posting the pictures on Facebook and tagging the subjects and I did not want to be included. He finally understood.
When I went to Winona State University then next year we still connected to MECC, only now we moved up to punch cards. All our programming all 4 years was saved on punch cards. When programs were due towards the end of the quarter there would be sometimes a 2 hour wait from when you fed your cards in until you got your response from Mankato.
You were feeding your card deck into a Sperry 1004. In Mankato, at the end of the quarter, there were so many card decks being processed that the weight didn't even need to be put on the stack of cards in the input hopper. The printer was pretty much running continuously, also, since most of the programs would error off immediately, due to syntax errors.
The Sperry 1106 you were feeding your card decks into was not a part of MECC, though. It was the academic processor for the State University Subsystem. The administrative processor was in St. Cloud.
As the third shift operator during the mid to late 1970's in Mankato, I had the computer to myself after the data centers closed for the evening. I never had a problem getting my programs run.;->
All of them are painfully underpowered. Scrolling through the guide is always waaaay too slow..
I don't know about the others and I haven't seen a recent Comcast DVR, but one reason they were extremely painful and slow is that the DVR made a round trip request to a Comcast server on every button push.
I have had multiple TiVo's from a series 1 through my current HD Dual Tuner with cable cards. The interface needs an update, but is still pretty good. Maybe the Web version is snazzier, but I haven't forked over the dollars to upgrade.
In 1994, I started a local ISP as an S-Corp. I had no other employees and ALL of the revenue went into buying more modems, phone lines, servers, etc. As I came down to the end of the first year, I was not certain what my profit would be, if there would even be one. I did not pay myself a salary because there was no cash in the bank to do so. All of my revenue was going to keep the business going.
Four years later, the IRS came back and imputed a salary of $24k for me so that they could collect the Social Security contribution. They couldn't collect Income Tax because I had no income.
That is when I learned that as a S-Corp owner, you cannot forgo a salary, even if you have no money to pay it. Any actual cash on hand goes to pay the taxes first and then the company can owe you.
Seventeen years later, after selling my network and customer base in 1998, the shell of that ISP is still around and I pay myself $16k a year to manage it. Not the $50k some might think necessary, but $16k is a good salary for managing a company that currently has no revenues. My accountants haven't said anything about this being too low and the IRS hasn't bothered me in awhile. Hopefully, they look at other factors such as effort expended and corporate revenue received, and don't just have a number from a table.
I can only hope that you work in a large organization with all of the resources you need, lots of additional support personnel, and a customer base that doesn't care what happens.
I agree that one should not plan on performing normal maintenance from a phone on a regular basis, but if one works in a smaller company with limited resources, one had better plan on being able to perform emergency maintenance in any situation, or there will be blood.
Gawwwd! Jerry Pournelle was one of the major reasons I canceled my subscription to Byte. The fact that the content was turning to drivel and the size of one issue ballooned to the same size as six issues from the early days, due to ads, was another.
Why on earth would anyone want to pay money to read Pournelle's whining about how someone didn't give him enough free stuff; his gloating about how much free stuff he got; the schilling for his kid's for fee software; and his ragging on people trying to make a living off their software by selling it?
In fact, in 1995 when Internet World started to have a Pournelle column, I wrote them and said that if they continued to push his drivel I would not only cancel my subscription, but would recommend to everyone I knew to not read their rag. I doubt very much that I was the prime cause, but enough other people must have felt the same way I did because they dropped his column.
I have Byte magazine from the first issue up into the early 1990's. They should leave the name to rest in peace.
Comcast is NOT a government created monopoly. In almost every locale where Comcast, or any other cable company, has a franchise, that franchise is NOT exclusive. Any other company can come in and establish a franchise to provide service as long as they meet the conditions of the franchise, such as providing access to everyone in the area that wants it and not cherry picking or redlining.
That franchise, by the way, applies only to Cable service and not to internet.
The report says that the towers result in 17.6 more births. I guess you can credit modern medicine for keeping all of those.6 babies alive, but really, what kind of existence will they have?
You have it backwards. As noted by tepples, the incumbents have sued many localities to prevent them from creating their own service provider, even when the incumbent had no plans to provide service in that local. In many case, the big telcos and cable companies have lobbied state legislators to pass laws making it very difficult, if not impossible, for localities to create a service provider.
And, it is the telcos and cable companies who want to use the city's right-of-way without paying for that use. They don't need eminent domain. Your legislature probably has already given them the ability to rip up your street and yard to run fiber and cable, and not pay a penny for that use! And, then you can try to fight them to get your street and yard put back the way it was.
Bits is bits! Bandwidth is not free, but it is only bandwidth that the carriers should be selling. They should not be charging different rates for different flavors of bits. They should not even be aware that the bits are reaching my phone from Google, or YouTube, or my e-mail server. All, they need to know is that I requested a specified number of bits to enter their network to be relayed through to my mobile device.
In the 1990's, after the small ISP's had invested their money into purchasing infrastructure and invested their time into fighting with the incumbent carriers to get that infrastructure working the way it was needed for internet access, Congress gave billions (with a 'b') dollars in credits to the cable and large telco providers to upgrade their networks for internet access. Where did that money go? Most likely to fund the consolidation in the telco and cable industries. But one place it didn't go, was to fund upgraded infrastructure.
Exactly!, or should I type EXACTLY! ? The position of the Caps Lock key is one of the worst examples of poor design. That is why one of the first things I do on a new PC is to reprogram the Caps Lock key to a Tab function and reprogram the Shift-PrntScr key (otherwise useless) to the Caps Lock function.
It would be nice if this didn't require registry editing, but it only needs to be done once per computer.
I still use the paid version. I believe in paying programmers for their work when I am happy with the product. I haven't really noticed a slowdown and I run it with everything turned on. Maybe the free version is different.
Norton, Symantec, whatever name they are hiding under these days is positively the worst when it comes to slowdowns and bloatware.
And, I absolutely wouldn't use MacAfee after their blue screen debacle with Internet Security Suite on Windows 2000. AVG at least admitted an issue and had fixes. After paying for an upgrade to MacAfee's Internet Security Suite and getting it partially installed, it caused the system to blue screen on boot. Since the software hadn't finished installing and wasn't registered, I couldn't get support without putting up cash up front. And then, they denied the problem. They continually took down posts on their forums from myself and others trying to get the problem resolved.
As far as trusting Microsoft to secure anything, give me a break.
AVG should have done more testing, but at least they didn't run from the problem.
Let's see, what year is this? Oh, yeah, 2010. That means that I have been programming computers for almost 35 years. And, I not burned out yet. I started with paper tape and punch cards and even programmed a line printer controller board, which involved implementing the program in wires.
I have been through more programming languages than I want to remember, each one guaranteed to be the path to true programming enlightenment, if I just convert and drink the Kool-Aid.
The key to staying in it and not sinking into the pit of despair over the drudge is getting to the place where you can have more control over the project and your role in it. Find or start a company with smart people that you like to work with. And, then create something that people not only use, but like to use. Because it makes their life easier and better.
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I'm 66. In the last few years I've learned enough Python and PHP to do useful work,.
There is not enough Python or PHP to learn to do useful work, regardless of your age.
You really need to know how to chew using RoR because you will need chew you arm off at some point. Forget something else, like programming your VCR, and re-learn how to chew.
I am 57 and still coding. I took care of the management issue by being a principle in every company I worked at for the last 30 years. It is a pain to code and do the books and deal with personnel, but it is worth the effort. It isn't hard to learn new the languages if you can forget about the basics you learned years ago. It isn't the syntax, it is the paradigms. That, and figuring out how to get around all of the 'tools' that are supposed to make you more productive.
The hardest thing is trying to convince someone that even though you want to charge them twice as much as a rookie just out of Brown Institute, you will produce a better product in one third the time. It is difficult to find companies that want to pay for the experience gained over 35 years. And, that experience is not just in what makes a good program, but what makes a good product.
If you still want to feel the exhilaration of writing golden code in a product that solves someone's problem, keep fighting the fight wherever the battle takes you. If you are tired and coded out, hang up the coding sheet and move on.
Unless you have a tablet or smaller device, WiFi will be useless on an airplane because as soon as you fire up your laptop, sign up, and pay your fee, the old lady in the seat in front of you will fully recline her seat. You won't be able to open your laptop more than an inch or so, unless you forgo your tray table. And, if you politely ask her to pull her seat up a bit, she will turn into the old lady that walked across the ceiling in that shitty apocalypse movie from a couple of years ago.
The airlines should set aside a section of seats with more space between seats, power outlets, and dedicated attendants for the people who want to pay extra to work while flying. Throw in a dedicated head and free drinks and it might almost be worth it.
Didn't he ever watch "Patriot Games"? He should have known he needed his piece of paper.
If you fold it in just the right way, you could have an Origami Swan Universe.......or a broach.....or a hat.
"The Cameron Divide" is the point at which the Universe went from 2D to 3D. "The Lucas Shift" is when it went to being 'far, far, away'.
If someone took my picture without my permission, or over my objection, is there something in the law that would prevent me from getting my picture back?
A few months ago I had to reiterate my objection to having my picture taken several times. I knew the photographer was planning on posting the pictures on Facebook and tagging the subjects and I did not want to be included. He finally understood.
And yet, you cared enough to give your very best. Enjoy fourth grade.
When I went to Winona State University then next year we still connected to MECC, only now we moved up to punch cards. All our programming all 4 years was saved on punch cards. When programs were due towards the end of the quarter there would be sometimes a 2 hour wait from when you fed your cards in until you got your response from Mankato.
You were feeding your card deck into a Sperry 1004. In Mankato, at the end of the quarter, there were so many card decks being processed that the weight didn't even need to be put on the stack of cards in the input hopper. The printer was pretty much running continuously, also, since most of the programs would error off immediately, due to syntax errors.
The Sperry 1106 you were feeding your card decks into was not a part of MECC, though. It was the academic processor for the State University Subsystem. The administrative processor was in St. Cloud.
As the third shift operator during the mid to late 1970's in Mankato, I had the computer to myself after the data centers closed for the evening. I never had a problem getting my programs run. ;->
All of them are painfully underpowered. Scrolling through the guide is always waaaay too slow. .
I don't know about the others and I haven't seen a recent Comcast DVR, but one reason they were extremely painful and slow is that the DVR made a round trip request to a Comcast server on every button push.
I have had multiple TiVo's from a series 1 through my current HD Dual Tuner with cable cards. The interface needs an update, but is still pretty good. Maybe the Web version is snazzier, but I haven't forked over the dollars to upgrade.
S-Corp is an IRS designation and refers to the subsection of the chapter on corporation types. That is why they are sometimes referred to as sub-S's.
>The reason why Steve Jobs' $1 salary is safe is because Apple has much better CPAs and tax attorneys working for them.
Not a lot better, though as I recall they got their collective asses in a sling over some stock options a few years ago.
In 1994, I started a local ISP as an S-Corp. I had no other employees and ALL of the revenue went into buying more modems, phone lines, servers, etc. As I came down to the end of the first year, I was not certain what my profit would be, if there would even be one. I did not pay myself a salary because there was no cash in the bank to do so. All of my revenue was going to keep the business going.
Four years later, the IRS came back and imputed a salary of $24k for me so that they could collect the Social Security contribution. They couldn't collect Income Tax because I had no income.
That is when I learned that as a S-Corp owner, you cannot forgo a salary, even if you have no money to pay it. Any actual cash on hand goes to pay the taxes first and then the company can owe you.
Seventeen years later, after selling my network and customer base in 1998, the shell of that ISP is still around and I pay myself $16k a year to manage it. Not the $50k some might think necessary, but $16k is a good salary for managing a company that currently has no revenues. My accountants haven't said anything about this being too low and the IRS hasn't bothered me in awhile. Hopefully, they look at other factors such as effort expended and corporate revenue received, and don't just have a number from a table.
I can only hope that you work in a large organization with all of the resources you need, lots of additional support personnel, and a customer base that doesn't care what happens.
I agree that one should not plan on performing normal maintenance from a phone on a regular basis, but if one works in a smaller company with limited resources, one had better plan on being able to perform emergency maintenance in any situation, or there will be blood.
Gawwwd! Jerry Pournelle was one of the major reasons I canceled my subscription to Byte. The fact that the content was turning to drivel and the size of one issue ballooned to the same size as six issues from the early days, due to ads, was another.
Why on earth would anyone want to pay money to read Pournelle's whining about how someone didn't give him enough free stuff; his gloating about how much free stuff he got; the schilling for his kid's for fee software; and his ragging on people trying to make a living off their software by selling it?
In fact, in 1995 when Internet World started to have a Pournelle column, I wrote them and said that if they continued to push his drivel I would not only cancel my subscription, but would recommend to everyone I knew to not read their rag. I doubt very much that I was the prime cause, but enough other people must have felt the same way I did because they dropped his column.
I have Byte magazine from the first issue up into the early 1990's. They should leave the name to rest in peace.
Comcast is NOT a government created monopoly. In almost every locale where Comcast, or any other cable company, has a franchise, that franchise is NOT exclusive. Any other company can come in and establish a franchise to provide service as long as they meet the conditions of the franchise, such as providing access to everyone in the area that wants it and not cherry picking or redlining.
That franchise, by the way, applies only to Cable service and not to internet.
The report says that the towers result in 17.6 more births. I guess you can credit modern medicine for keeping all of those .6 babies alive, but really, what kind of existence will they have?
You have it backwards. As noted by tepples, the incumbents have sued many localities to prevent them from creating their own service provider, even when the incumbent had no plans to provide service in that local. In many case, the big telcos and cable companies have lobbied state legislators to pass laws making it very difficult, if not impossible, for localities to create a service provider.
And, it is the telcos and cable companies who want to use the city's right-of-way without paying for that use. They don't need eminent domain. Your legislature probably has already given them the ability to rip up your street and yard to run fiber and cable, and not pay a penny for that use! And, then you can try to fight them to get your street and yard put back the way it was.
Bits is bits! Bandwidth is not free, but it is only bandwidth that the carriers should be selling. They should not be charging different rates for different flavors of bits. They should not even be aware that the bits are reaching my phone from Google, or YouTube, or my e-mail server. All, they need to know is that I requested a specified number of bits to enter their network to be relayed through to my mobile device.
This is why the cellular carriers should not be omitted from any type of net neutrality rules put into place by the FCC. And this is why the Republicans actions to prevent the FCC from issuing net neutrality rulings needs to be prevented. See http://slashdot.org/story/10/12/17/2045244/Republicans-Create-Rider-To-Stop-Net-Neutrality
In the 1990's, after the small ISP's had invested their money into purchasing infrastructure and invested their time into fighting with the incumbent carriers to get that infrastructure working the way it was needed for internet access, Congress gave billions (with a 'b') dollars in credits to the cable and large telco providers to upgrade their networks for internet access. Where did that money go? Most likely to fund the consolidation in the telco and cable industries. But one place it didn't go, was to fund upgraded infrastructure.
Exactly!, or should I type EXACTLY! ? The position of the Caps Lock key is one of the worst examples of poor design. That is why one of the first things I do on a new PC is to reprogram the Caps Lock key to a Tab function and reprogram the Shift-PrntScr key (otherwise useless) to the Caps Lock function.
It would be nice if this didn't require registry editing, but it only needs to be done once per computer.
Norton, Symantec, whatever name they are hiding under these days is positively the worst when it comes to slowdowns and bloatware.
And, I absolutely wouldn't use MacAfee after their blue screen debacle with Internet Security Suite on Windows 2000. AVG at least admitted an issue and had fixes. After paying for an upgrade to MacAfee's Internet Security Suite and getting it partially installed, it caused the system to blue screen on boot. Since the software hadn't finished installing and wasn't registered, I couldn't get support without putting up cash up front. And then, they denied the problem. They continually took down posts on their forums from myself and others trying to get the problem resolved.
As far as trusting Microsoft to secure anything, give me a break.
AVG should have done more testing, but at least they didn't run from the problem.
Let's see, what year is this? Oh, yeah, 2010. That means that I have been programming computers for almost 35 years. And, I not burned out yet. I started with paper tape and punch cards and even programmed a line printer controller board, which involved implementing the program in wires. I have been through more programming languages than I want to remember, each one guaranteed to be the path to true programming enlightenment, if I just convert and drink the Kool-Aid. The key to staying in it and not sinking into the pit of despair over the drudge is getting to the place where you can have more control over the project and your role in it. Find or start a company with smart people that you like to work with. And, then create something that people not only use, but like to use. Because it makes their life easier and better.
I think that process is patented.