A lot of these seem to be impulsive in nature. Depression is a cyclical thing, and eliminating an opportunity from presenting itself could mean the difference between someone dying and their outlook brightening enough for them to realize they have other options. I spent the weekend worrying about a skydiving friend who had to go jail yesterday. If he'd opted to pound in, no one could have stopped him. I wasn't about to tell him to spend the weekend not skydiving, though. I did make sure to talk to him when he needed it, letting him know that the sky and all his friends would still be here when he got out. I think that could have made the difference between the world closing up on him. He was much more of a loner a year ago and the outcome might have been different if he'd been in this position then.
There's a pretty decent support network over at the dropzone. Good folk there. A lot of them know their way around the prison system. Society tends to look down on people with criminal records, but I've trusted my life to a lot of those guys and am going to do it again without hesitation. There's a lot broken with our society, but we should fix what we can.
It's a shortage of people with a decade of experience in C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Object Oriented COBOL, Linux, Windows, dot-net, oracle SQL and MS SQL who are also willing to accept $45,000 a year.
Do these guys even listen to the words that come out of their pie holes when they open them? Or do they just have some mental disorder that causes them to just spew out a constant stream of consciousness? Or are they just some unread cronies of some MP? In any event, they might want to run their ideas by some better-educated underling before opening their trap in front of the press. You know, someone who can go, "Wot, like 1984? Bloody 'ell that's a terrible idea!" (For some reason my idea of a "better educated underling" is John Oliver doing a Charles Dickens parody.)
Typically if you open with "This call may be recorded (or *WILL* be recorded)" that's enough to shield you from the wiretapping laws. Essentially you just need to inform the other party of your intent to record the call in advance. (Not a lawyer in any state, much less all 50, check with your local authoritah yadda yadda)
There's got to be some android software that lets you accomplish this. It's also easy to do with asterisk if you have landlines or voip. You can just set up a voice menu system that informs the caller when they dial in that calls may be recorded "for quality purposes." Such a warning or system might be enough on its own to discourage a lot of these assholes. I just bounce all calls not on a whitelist into voicemail. If they're important I'll call 'em back. Of course, I don't have a panic attack if I'm not reachable with an uptime of 99.999% either.
That's exactly what it means. All these job postings read the same way because HR doesn't really understand what you'll be doing, what your department does or really even what the company does in a lot of cases. This leads to people playing buzz word bingo on their resume even more than they were previously. Letting HR be the gatekeeper for your hiring isn't doing your company or the industry as a whole any favors. It has not improved the quality of the candidates companies are hiring one bit.
They already do. Any attack is going to come in via a botnet composed of compromised systems within your own border. You could make those systems more secure, but not without sacrificing the ability to spy on them whenever you want to.
IIRC someone mentioned that they could add satellite communications and the ability for the plane to upload its telemetry every so often and it would add about $100000 to the cost of the plane. Of that, I'd guesstimate that the hardware and software costs about $1000, the FAA certification costs $49000 and the CEO's bonus costs $50000.
Hopefully you have a "Plan B." One would think, ideally, one of your plans would be to not rape people. I mean, just throwing that out there. After, I dunno, the third or forth news story I was all like "Wow, they're really raping a lot of people in India all of a sudden. Did one of our fraternities start outsourcing or something?" And you guys do know that raping people is bad, right? I mean, based on your reaction to this movie, it does seem like you're aware of that. So maybe try not raping people for a while, see how that goes for you.
I worked at Sun briefly, right before the end. The company was so mired in process it was hard to get anything done. Despite all the process, they still managed to make several bad design decisions on the product I was working on, the effects of which were not evident until they started live testing with more than one user. There was a guy a couple cubes over from me who I'm pretty sure did noting but boast about how he was a process blackbelt on the phone, pretty much every day I was there. Also, amusingly, a couple of us contractors got behind some engineers on the way to lunch one day who were talking some shit about the quality of code in the Linux kernel.
Sun's attitude always was "If we make cool things, people will buy them." Which was largely true, until they weren't cool anymore. But at that point the company was so big and entrenched that they'd lost sight of that. It was no longer "If we make cool things, people will buy them." Instead it was "If we keep making the things we've been making all along, people will buy them." The people in charge no longer understood that the engine of their success was constant innovation, and sat back and rested on their success. Assuming they ever understood that in the first place. It's entirely possible that Sun's success was entirely accidental. The gimmicks they started using to try to attract talent exposed their lack of understanding. It was not "Work for us and you'll get to design some of the coolest, bleeding edge technology in the world." It was "Work for us and we'll have a circus at work while we flail around aimlessly (And make you fill in a 12 page form to unlock version control.)"
Google's now in that position of making cool stuff that people will buy and use because it's cool. Their current leadership also seems to understand that they need to keep innovating to remain in the position they are now. Every so often you see some jackass writing about how Google needs to stop spending so much on "Useless R&D." I would suggest that you avoid taking stock advice from those people. Anywhoo, given that Google seems to understand that innovation is the key to success, the question is, can Mozilla keep up with them? Mozilla should have the advantage that they're able to focus on the one thing they do and do that really well. But to make serious advances in market share, they'd have to significantly stand out from the competition. I'm not entirely sure I can see that happening.
I currently use a program that blocks calls not on a whitelist, but I miss the power of asterisk. Being able to turn my cell phone into a PBX system and treating the incoming cellular network as just another channel I can manage would be pretty awesome!
Yeah, taken to a US Embassy, hauled off to gitmo for 5 years after which he'll announce that he wants to chop off his dong and be referred to as "Edwina." It's not like we haven't seen that happen before...
Filename extensions are embedding file metadata in the file name, which is never a good idea. It's a kludgy solution to a problem we had when computers were significantly less capable than they are now. The fact that we haven't already eliminated them is yet another indication of the sad state of original thinking in the current generation of software engineers. And yes I know that the original MacOS let you put metadata in the resource fork of the file three decades ago.
That's handy. Maybe all those MQ servers I've had to deal with in the past will finally stop having to be rebooted every 3 days, if anyone ever gets around to updating them. I've been firmly in the C++ world the past couple of years and have kind of stopped looking at Java since Oracle started being such a dick about the language. If I pick up a java contract in the future, I'll have to familiarize myself with the new features.
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Yeah but if you don't vote, the wrong clueless twats might get in.
There's a pretty decent support network over at the dropzone. Good folk there. A lot of them know their way around the prison system. Society tends to look down on people with criminal records, but I've trusted my life to a lot of those guys and am going to do it again without hesitation. There's a lot broken with our society, but we should fix what we can.
It's a shortage of people with a decade of experience in C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Object Oriented COBOL, Linux, Windows, dot-net, oracle SQL and MS SQL who are also willing to accept $45,000 a year.
Do these guys even listen to the words that come out of their pie holes when they open them? Or do they just have some mental disorder that causes them to just spew out a constant stream of consciousness? Or are they just some unread cronies of some MP? In any event, they might want to run their ideas by some better-educated underling before opening their trap in front of the press. You know, someone who can go, "Wot, like 1984? Bloody 'ell that's a terrible idea!" (For some reason my idea of a "better educated underling" is John Oliver doing a Charles Dickens parody.)
They're in there. Have you adjusted your slashdot localization settings?
There's got to be some android software that lets you accomplish this. It's also easy to do with asterisk if you have landlines or voip. You can just set up a voice menu system that informs the caller when they dial in that calls may be recorded "for quality purposes." Such a warning or system might be enough on its own to discourage a lot of these assholes. I just bounce all calls not on a whitelist into voicemail. If they're important I'll call 'em back. Of course, I don't have a panic attack if I'm not reachable with an uptime of 99.999% either.
That's exactly what it means. All these job postings read the same way because HR doesn't really understand what you'll be doing, what your department does or really even what the company does in a lot of cases. This leads to people playing buzz word bingo on their resume even more than they were previously. Letting HR be the gatekeeper for your hiring isn't doing your company or the industry as a whole any favors. It has not improved the quality of the candidates companies are hiring one bit.
They already do. Any attack is going to come in via a botnet composed of compromised systems within your own border. You could make those systems more secure, but not without sacrificing the ability to spy on them whenever you want to.
IIRC someone mentioned that they could add satellite communications and the ability for the plane to upload its telemetry every so often and it would add about $100000 to the cost of the plane. Of that, I'd guesstimate that the hardware and software costs about $1000, the FAA certification costs $49000 and the CEO's bonus costs $50000.
It's not ironic! It's just coincidental!
Like hiding your head in the sand, eh? I'd like to introduce you to India, but they'd probably rape you.
When you could etch an image in blue and brown instead? Maybe like the All Seeing Eye of Horus or something.
Hopefully you have a "Plan B." One would think, ideally, one of your plans would be to not rape people. I mean, just throwing that out there. After, I dunno, the third or forth news story I was all like "Wow, they're really raping a lot of people in India all of a sudden. Did one of our fraternities start outsourcing or something?" And you guys do know that raping people is bad, right? I mean, based on your reaction to this movie, it does seem like you're aware of that. So maybe try not raping people for a while, see how that goes for you.
Sun's attitude always was "If we make cool things, people will buy them." Which was largely true, until they weren't cool anymore. But at that point the company was so big and entrenched that they'd lost sight of that. It was no longer "If we make cool things, people will buy them." Instead it was "If we keep making the things we've been making all along, people will buy them." The people in charge no longer understood that the engine of their success was constant innovation, and sat back and rested on their success. Assuming they ever understood that in the first place. It's entirely possible that Sun's success was entirely accidental. The gimmicks they started using to try to attract talent exposed their lack of understanding. It was not "Work for us and you'll get to design some of the coolest, bleeding edge technology in the world." It was "Work for us and we'll have a circus at work while we flail around aimlessly (And make you fill in a 12 page form to unlock version control.)"
Google's now in that position of making cool stuff that people will buy and use because it's cool. Their current leadership also seems to understand that they need to keep innovating to remain in the position they are now. Every so often you see some jackass writing about how Google needs to stop spending so much on "Useless R&D." I would suggest that you avoid taking stock advice from those people. Anywhoo, given that Google seems to understand that innovation is the key to success, the question is, can Mozilla keep up with them? Mozilla should have the advantage that they're able to focus on the one thing they do and do that really well. But to make serious advances in market share, they'd have to significantly stand out from the competition. I'm not entirely sure I can see that happening.
That means the window's closing on me making a 3D wingsuit video with the intent of making an Occulus Rift wearer vomit! I'd better get cracking!
Sadly it's in Canadian dollars, so all those extra zeros are basically pointless.
I currently use a program that blocks calls not on a whitelist, but I miss the power of asterisk. Being able to turn my cell phone into a PBX system and treating the incoming cellular network as just another channel I can manage would be pretty awesome!
You do not talk about Fight Club in Derkaderkastan!
Zune Man!
That's odd. Everyone who took it had a 100% chance of dying at some point.
Yeah, taken to a US Embassy, hauled off to gitmo for 5 years after which he'll announce that he wants to chop off his dong and be referred to as "Edwina." It's not like we haven't seen that happen before...
This opens an entire new world of free amateur porn and cat videos! It's like the Internet has been invented all over again!
Filename extensions are embedding file metadata in the file name, which is never a good idea. It's a kludgy solution to a problem we had when computers were significantly less capable than they are now. The fact that we haven't already eliminated them is yet another indication of the sad state of original thinking in the current generation of software engineers. And yes I know that the original MacOS let you put metadata in the resource fork of the file three decades ago.
Nonsense! Everyone knows the initial release always has some problems! They'll surely be fixed in Minecraft 2 Service Pack 2!
That's handy. Maybe all those MQ servers I've had to deal with in the past will finally stop having to be rebooted every 3 days, if anyone ever gets around to updating them. I've been firmly in the C++ world the past couple of years and have kind of stopped looking at Java since Oracle started being such a dick about the language. If I pick up a java contract in the future, I'll have to familiarize myself with the new features.