If you want to continue your "real patent" defense, you might want to consider that this technical audience is very interested in what novel technique is actually being litigated over. The fact that no details seem quickly apparent suggests it is likely some one-click-purchasing bullshit
Dude are you for real? Next time you want to play the "this is a tech crowd don't bullshit us" card, make sure your question can't be answered with a simple fucking google search.
There's already hints in the article about VPN and DNS security, and if that's not enough any retard with internet access can find out more easily.
But of course you have done none of that. It's easier to post your lame accusations based on the fact that "no details seem quickly apparent". I've heard more convincing arguments from the guy who rummages through the recycle bins outside at 2am when he argues wih himself out loud.
This is a real patent and Apple was aware of it. They just assumed they could crush the patent holder and get away with it if it went to court because they have deeper pockets. This isn't a unique situation; Nintendo also does that frequently, and Microsoft used to.
After the whole Samsung debacle Apple can hardly play the offended virgin about patents. It's like politicians who ask for a different electoral process when they,re afraid to lose an election but say nothing when they win (ex: Obama).
Devuan would have more luck if its name didn't sound half black, half Puerto Rican, and 100% homosexual.
If there was such a thing as a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try. White heterosexual engineers have given use things like CDE/Motif and the metal look and feel in java, I'm completely open to look elsewhere for my user experience.
my primary desktop...which is never permanently online to begin with.
So either you have a dial-up internet, or you're somehow turning off a switch or network card when you don't "need" internet. How does that work? You download your emails, store webpages offline for later reading? What about porn? You browse specialized sites, sample a few videos, then download them for later use?
I can almost imagine you, coming back to your computer, in your bathrobe, carrying a bottle of cold cream and a glass of chardonnay. I can imagine you sifting through those offline porn videos, craving for something kinkier than the blonde on blonde stuff you earlier thought would hit the spot - your blue chip porn. Of course at the time you couldn't foresee that there would be a new woman at work, a black one with a big booty, the kind that never before you would have imagined as jerk off material; or that at the Taco Bell drive-thru there would be a young Indian with a bitchy attitude that would leave you with a faint taste for some femdom kink or maybe a bit of hardcore tag-team action. So there you are, with your 200mb worth of mp4 filled with silicon tits and pouty lips; a far cry from what you'd really be into, all thanks to your offline desktop policy.
This sounds like an awful way to enjoy life. Whatever you've done, or whatever has been done to you, stop punishing yourself. Connect that desktop to the grid; hell, go nuts and upgrade your internet connection to something decent like a 60mbps plan, and start having fun. Allow yourself the spur-of-the-moment youtube experience; skim through your inbox in a web browser; join the Bittorrent brotherhood; let pornhub suggest things to you and go down that rabbit hole of semi-related videos. The grid has lots to offer.
So this thing will pick up meeting dates and guess which files you want. Nice. But you still cannot create a fucking MAILING LIST. You want a nice support@yourcompany.com? You have to pick ONE mailbox (which cannot be shared).
Their solution: use Google Groups. Which are useless especially since you have to whitelist every sender. And still no real backup.
Sad to say but those guys are 5+ years behind Office365.
I actually stopped ordering from Amazon when they started shipping most of my stuff with UPS. The shopping convenience fades quickly when you have to deal with frequent shipping problems, and 1/3 of the time for big items you end up going at the effing UPS warehouse because the lazy driver didn't want to be bothered to move it from his truck and just left bullshit "no answer" tags on your mailbox over and over.
Here's the thing about any demographic group: just like wih bomb threats, even if a large proportion of calls are pranks, you can't take a chance and ignore them all. You may have to suffer through a long list of unskilled Indians who only learned a few buzzwords and got their certifications from a relative or subcontractor, but at some point you're bound to find a real gem. The trick is to find ways to discard incompetents quickly.
For instance, you have to ask the HR drone who does the phone screening to remove any question that can be answered with "yes", "no", "I'm certified" or "I have plenty of experience". It takes a while to tune the questionnaire but it's worth it. Somewhere amid the garbage there's gonna be a rock star, that's almost always the case.
Bullshitting their way to a job interview has long been a typical Indian move, but more and more I've started to notice this pattern emerging from other groups (East Europeans, North Africans and Chinese mostly). I will never understand the strategy because there's just no way it can lead to a great career, but until this signal-to-noise issue is resolved, recruiting will remain a nightmare, and those public employees and/or SJW who come up with racism accusations very very quickly when they don't understand the reality are making it even more difficult.
To anyone who contributed to these accusations against Palantir, fuck you.
Am I the only one who read "Asian" as a politically correct version of "Indian" in this story?
Anyone who does hiring in IT can tell you about the massive amount of "qualified" Indian candidates with 25 certifications who somehow can't answer basic questions. I am not surprised by those numbers.
Let's say you want to hire a junior fresh out of school. You have two candidates: one who went to MIT and one who went to community college. Odds are, the company will be ready to pay a bit more for the MIT candidate.
On the other hand, let's say you're looking for a solid developer with 5 years experience. Again you have two candidates, with similar job titles on their resume. One candidate went to MIT and worked at some local consulting firm in Pennsylvania for the last five years. The other candidate went to community college, then spent two years at Amazon and three years at Netflix. You really think the company wil roll out the red carpet for the MIT guy?
A prestigious school only helps early in your career. After that it's all about where you worked (at least in America, I heard it's different in Europe). Worse than that, a candidate that says things like "back at MIT..." in a job interview for an intermediary or senior position sounds like that guy in Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of his high school football days.
You don't answer as to how many so let's just go ahead and discard your point that my work experience is a less sinificant "sample" than your experience with IEEE geniuses.
It's the first time I see someone bragging about being a member of the IEEE, so let's see what they have to say about "associate members":
Associate member grade is designed for technical and non-technical individuals who do not meet the qualifications for member grade but who wish to benefit from membership and partnership in IEEE, and for those who are progressing, through continuing education and work experience, toward qualifications for member grade.
So in a nutshell, you're paying them $200 a year to be a wannabe IEEE member. Sounds like a great investment, although I'd personally spend that money at a stripclub, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
I guess it depends on the industry, but I've been in this one for almost 20 years and anywhere I've been, the best technical people I've met always had either a community college diploma, were college dropouts or even had some vocational school training.
I can't explain it but it feels like those people are more willing to try things, to venture out of their zone of comfort and to deal wih conflict. Meanwhile, the whizz kids with degrees up the pooper sure know a lot of theory and can excel at some things, but they usually behave like union people, never willing or open to set foot outside of their job description. And while the industry sure needs warm bodies to write test cases and optimize loops, it's not the Mr Propers showing up to scrum meetings only to babble about having one too much item in their kanban that make things move forward.
There's something about higher education that seems to suck the creativity and open-mindedness out of people and replace it with a mild form of entitlement.
Well that's my take on this based on my own experience. But I guarantee you that 9 times out of 10, I can spot a self-made developer or sysadmin because he's the one willing to solve an urgent problem without asking for a fucking ticket number.
The starting salary may be higher but the difference disappear over time, it doesn't last for the whole career.
I remember having this exact discussion with a HR person while looking for candidates for my team. I was surprised by the salaries so she explained that junior people with a degree from a prestigious school started higher on the salary scale to recognize their investment and possible better education but that someone with a community college diploma would catch up within a few years.
This being said does that mean it's a bad investment? If salary and job opportunities are the only factor then no it's not worth it, but if you consider the education itself and the boost of confidence it can bring in the first years that could be valuable. Personally I'm more in favor of the strict minimum education in terms of time and money to get to work as soon as possible and earn as soon as possible without any kind of debt but that's a matter of preference.
there's a double dose of cognitive dissonnance in this case.
1) intolerant behavior as a response to someone supporting a candidate perceived as intolerant
2) support for a presidential candidate that essentially stole the nomination, just like she stole furniture, art and rugs when she left the White House the last time (and threatened rape victimes and lied and ruined the life of many civil servants out of pure greed, etc).
However I am myself biased sometimes and can't blame them. As an example I did cancel my Dropbox subscription when I learned that Cuntdoleeza Rice was on the board of directors, just to voice my disapproval. But still. This boycott approach smells a lot like tactics used by vile characters in early to mid-20th century germany.
I find it amusing when java apologists talk about various other programming languages running on a jvm, as if it was anything else than a clear sign that java isn't all that optimal as a programming language. Why do you think exactly scala exists? (hint: read the wikipedia entry about scala).
It's like when people run Linux on Azure. It's not that much of an endorsement of Microsoft.
Sorry bro, the big boy web and big data all run on Java.
Spoken like a true wannabe.
Facebook -> PHP Twitter -> ruby Youtube -> python, C++ google -> c++, java, go, name it Wikipedia -> PHP Walmart -> node js amazon -> perl, java imdb -> perl bing -> c#
The "big boy web" is a lot more diverse and random than you think. As for big data, spark is scala and most data scientist work with R and Python. So take that smugness somewhere else, here you just look dumb.
try IntelliJ if you have to, but don't uninstall Netbeans. You will get back to it, especially if you're like me and you're used to work with multiple projects.
I have to use IntelliJ-ish for Android apps and I hate every minute of it.
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If you want to continue your "real patent" defense, you might want to consider that this technical audience is very interested in what novel technique is actually being litigated over. The fact that no details seem quickly apparent suggests it is likely some one-click-purchasing bullshit
Dude are you for real? Next time you want to play the "this is a tech crowd don't bullshit us" card, make sure your question can't be answered with a simple fucking google search.
There's already hints in the article about VPN and DNS security, and if that's not enough any retard with internet access can find out more easily.
But of course you have done none of that. It's easier to post your lame accusations based on the fact that "no details seem quickly apparent". I've heard more convincing arguments from the guy who rummages through the recycle bins outside at 2am when he argues wih himself out loud.
This is a real patent and Apple was aware of it. They just assumed they could crush the patent holder and get away with it if it went to court because they have deeper pockets. This isn't a unique situation; Nintendo also does that frequently, and Microsoft used to.
After the whole Samsung debacle Apple can hardly play the offended virgin about patents. It's like politicians who ask for a different electoral process when they,re afraid to lose an election but say nothing when they win (ex: Obama).
Devuan would have more luck if its name didn't sound half black, half Puerto Rican, and 100% homosexual.
If there was such a thing as a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try. White heterosexual engineers have given use things like CDE/Motif and the metal look and feel in java, I'm completely open to look elsewhere for my user experience.
my primary desktop...which is never permanently online to begin with.
So either you have a dial-up internet, or you're somehow turning off a switch or network card when you don't "need" internet. How does that work? You download your emails, store webpages offline for later reading? What about porn? You browse specialized sites, sample a few videos, then download them for later use?
I can almost imagine you, coming back to your computer, in your bathrobe, carrying a bottle of cold cream and a glass of chardonnay. I can imagine you sifting through those offline porn videos, craving for something kinkier than the blonde on blonde stuff you earlier thought would hit the spot - your blue chip porn. Of course at the time you couldn't foresee that there would be a new woman at work, a black one with a big booty, the kind that never before you would have imagined as jerk off material; or that at the Taco Bell drive-thru there would be a young Indian with a bitchy attitude that would leave you with a faint taste for some femdom kink or maybe a bit of hardcore tag-team action. So there you are, with your 200mb worth of mp4 filled with silicon tits and pouty lips; a far cry from what you'd really be into, all thanks to your offline desktop policy.
This sounds like an awful way to enjoy life. Whatever you've done, or whatever has been done to you, stop punishing yourself. Connect that desktop to the grid; hell, go nuts and upgrade your internet connection to something decent like a 60mbps plan, and start having fun. Allow yourself the spur-of-the-moment youtube experience; skim through your inbox in a web browser; join the Bittorrent brotherhood; let pornhub suggest things to you and go down that rabbit hole of semi-related videos. The grid has lots to offer.
So this thing will pick up meeting dates and guess which files you want. Nice. But you still cannot create a fucking MAILING LIST. You want a nice support@yourcompany.com? You have to pick ONE mailbox (which cannot be shared).
Their solution: use Google Groups. Which are useless especially since you have to whitelist every sender. And still no real backup.
Sad to say but those guys are 5+ years behind Office365.
I actually stopped ordering from Amazon when they started shipping most of my stuff with UPS. The shopping convenience fades quickly when you have to deal with frequent shipping problems, and 1/3 of the time for big items you end up going at the effing UPS warehouse because the lazy driver didn't want to be bothered to move it from his truck and just left bullshit "no answer" tags on your mailbox over and over.
Here's the thing about any demographic group: just like wih bomb threats, even if a large proportion of calls are pranks, you can't take a chance and ignore them all. You may have to suffer through a long list of unskilled Indians who only learned a few buzzwords and got their certifications from a relative or subcontractor, but at some point you're bound to find a real gem. The trick is to find ways to discard incompetents quickly.
For instance, you have to ask the HR drone who does the phone screening to remove any question that can be answered with "yes", "no", "I'm certified" or "I have plenty of experience". It takes a while to tune the questionnaire but it's worth it. Somewhere amid the garbage there's gonna be a rock star, that's almost always the case.
Bullshitting their way to a job interview has long been a typical Indian move, but more and more I've started to notice this pattern emerging from other groups (East Europeans, North Africans and Chinese mostly). I will never understand the strategy because there's just no way it can lead to a great career, but until this signal-to-noise issue is resolved, recruiting will remain a nightmare, and those public employees and/or SJW who come up with racism accusations very very quickly when they don't understand the reality are making it even more difficult.
To anyone who contributed to these accusations against Palantir, fuck you.
Am I the only one who read "Asian" as a politically correct version of "Indian" in this story?
Anyone who does hiring in IT can tell you about the massive amount of "qualified" Indian candidates with 25 certifications who somehow can't answer basic questions. I am not surprised by those numbers.
Let's say you want to hire a junior fresh out of school. You have two candidates: one who went to MIT and one who went to community college. Odds are, the company will be ready to pay a bit more for the MIT candidate.
On the other hand, let's say you're looking for a solid developer with 5 years experience. Again you have two candidates, with similar job titles on their resume. One candidate went to MIT and worked at some local consulting firm in Pennsylvania for the last five years. The other candidate went to community college, then spent two years at Amazon and three years at Netflix. You really think the company wil roll out the red carpet for the MIT guy?
A prestigious school only helps early in your career. After that it's all about where you worked (at least in America, I heard it's different in Europe). Worse than that, a candidate that says things like "back at MIT..." in a job interview for an intermediary or senior position sounds like that guy in Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of his high school football days.
You don't answer as to how many so let's just go ahead and discard your point that my work experience is a less sinificant "sample" than your experience with IEEE geniuses.
that's like asking Henry Ford how he would make tesla autopilot problems go away
So you have physically met how many of those smart IEEE people? And how long has that interaction lasted?
It's the first time I see someone bragging about being a member of the IEEE, so let's see what they have to say about "associate members":
Associate member grade is designed for technical and non-technical individuals who do not meet the qualifications for member grade but who wish to benefit from membership and partnership in IEEE, and for those who are progressing, through continuing education and work experience, toward qualifications for member grade.
So in a nutshell, you're paying them $200 a year to be a wannabe IEEE member. Sounds like a great investment, although I'd personally spend that money at a stripclub, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
I guess it depends on the industry, but I've been in this one for almost 20 years and anywhere I've been, the best technical people I've met always had either a community college diploma, were college dropouts or even had some vocational school training.
I can't explain it but it feels like those people are more willing to try things, to venture out of their zone of comfort and to deal wih conflict. Meanwhile, the whizz kids with degrees up the pooper sure know a lot of theory and can excel at some things, but they usually behave like union people, never willing or open to set foot outside of their job description. And while the industry sure needs warm bodies to write test cases and optimize loops, it's not the Mr Propers showing up to scrum meetings only to babble about having one too much item in their kanban that make things move forward.
There's something about higher education that seems to suck the creativity and open-mindedness out of people and replace it with a mild form of entitlement.
Well that's my take on this based on my own experience. But I guarantee you that 9 times out of 10, I can spot a self-made developer or sysadmin because he's the one willing to solve an urgent problem without asking for a fucking ticket number.
The starting salary may be higher but the difference disappear over time, it doesn't last for the whole career.
I remember having this exact discussion with a HR person while looking for candidates for my team. I was surprised by the salaries so she explained that junior people with a degree from a prestigious school started higher on the salary scale to recognize their investment and possible better education but that someone with a community college diploma would catch up within a few years.
This being said does that mean it's a bad investment? If salary and job opportunities are the only factor then no it's not worth it, but if you consider the education itself and the boost of confidence it can bring in the first years that could be valuable. Personally I'm more in favor of the strict minimum education in terms of time and money to get to work as soon as possible and earn as soon as possible without any kind of debt but that's a matter of preference.
For grownups we still have braces
Call me old-fashioned, but to me braces look weird on people older than 12-15 years old.
there's a double dose of cognitive dissonnance in this case.
1) intolerant behavior as a response to someone supporting a candidate perceived as intolerant
2) support for a presidential candidate that essentially stole the nomination, just like she stole furniture, art and rugs when she left the White House the last time (and threatened rape victimes and lied and ruined the life of many civil servants out of pure greed, etc).
However I am myself biased sometimes and can't blame them. As an example I did cancel my Dropbox subscription when I learned that Cuntdoleeza Rice was on the board of directors, just to voice my disapproval. But still. This boycott approach smells a lot like tactics used by vile characters in early to mid-20th century germany.
Hackers are distributing malware as popular warez? Stop the presses!
I wish they had published that story before I downloaded that GameOfThronesSeason7.exe file.
Now I have to run an antivirus on my machine AND I'll have nothing to watch in the meantime.
That's why I only use magnet.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
I find it amusing when java apologists talk about various other programming languages running on a jvm, as if it was anything else than a clear sign that java isn't all that optimal as a programming language. Why do you think exactly scala exists? (hint: read the wikipedia entry about scala).
It's like when people run Linux on Azure. It's not that much of an endorsement of Microsoft.
Too bad upgrading hasn't made them any more profitable
I can't even register a new account on netbeans website to report bugs. Even the "contact the webmaster" link is broken.
Sorry bro, the big boy web and big data all run on Java.
Spoken like a true wannabe.
Facebook -> PHP
Twitter -> ruby
Youtube -> python, C++
google -> c++, java, go, name it
Wikipedia -> PHP
Walmart -> node js
amazon -> perl, java
imdb -> perl
bing -> c#
The "big boy web" is a lot more diverse and random than you think. As for big data, spark is scala and most data scientist work with R and Python. So take that smugness somewhere else, here you just look dumb.
It's probably easier to rewrite an app than port its source code from SourceSafe to Svn or Git.
try IntelliJ if you have to, but don't uninstall Netbeans. You will get back to it, especially if you're like me and you're used to work with multiple projects.
I have to use IntelliJ-ish for Android apps and I hate every minute of it.