I average more than one Amazon order a week and I have never used 1-click shopping. It seems like a really bad idea to me, I don't need a mis-click on a product page to initiate an order.
Who uses it and why? Going through the checkout process only takes a few seconds; my payment and shipping details are saved so it's not like I have to enter them every time. Plus those 1-click purchases aren't earning any money for your selected charity like they would if you checked out on the smiles site.
I ordered a pair of Snaptacles online when they became available. I figured Snap wouldn't be around for long and thought it would be a neat toy to add to my collection of failed/obsolete tech.
The problem is they just don't work. I carried mine for a day and took videos until I ran out of space. When I got home and tried to retrieve the videos through the Snap app it just says "Failed". There's no way to get the videos off the Spectacles! I did find a workaround by marking videos as favorites and then saving to my camera roll, but then I can't view the video in the Snap app.
Pairing was a nightmare. Why do I have to look at an image instead of doing the normal Bluetooth pairing procedure? The Spectacles refuse to pair with my Moto X Pure!
The Snap stories don't work properly. You can only create a single story from all of your recorded videos and anything you don't want to include gets deleted. Did none of the developers actually use the Spectacles?
Then you have the bare-bones functionality. There's no way to record continuous video. There's no way to take a picture instead of a video. There's no way to automatically take a Snap every X number of minutes. There's no way to trigger the Snaptacles from the app itself.
What exactly do you think the wealthy do with their money? You think they just have a giant pile of cash lying around in a vault? Finding places to spend/invest the money is a real problem for wealthy people.
The wealthy buy companies, employ people and produce things. They put their money into fine art and automobiles and then build museums to house their collections. They invest in real estate and put up hotels and start restaurants. They do things like start racing teams and enter into competitions. They are also human and have human needs. They need to eat, sleep, socialize and relax just like everyone else.
If you want to get some of their money then you need to be providing them with either the services or products they need.
When is the MMR vaccine administered? There have been several recent Measles outbreaks in Minnesota's Somali communities due to anti-vaxers targeting them with misinformation campaigns.
Go do a six month contract for some agency to get a current employer on your resume. Then take some time to read up on AWS and spend a weekend or two to do a simple VPC deployment with ELB, Route 53, etc.
I'm a little shocked you would have any trouble landing a gig. You are applying for devops positions, right?
I went to school at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus in the last half of the 90's and they offered computer science under both the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Some of the in-major requirements are slightly different, like whether you take an Algorithms class taught by a Mathematics or an MIS professor, but overall the curriculums were comparable. Everyone learned C and there was an OOP elective to take if you wanted to learn C++ and Smalltalk.
I know people who graduated from both colleges and have never heard of employers having a preference for one of the other.
"Gone by 40." Right. Just give me a minute while I tell all of the people around me that they're not supposed to be working here because they're too old (including me).
Good programmers are always in demand. There's a shortage of them in the Chicago market right now, especially front-end developers.
Not sure what you're talking about wrt. sexism and discrimination unless you mean women and minorities are highly sought after, because they are. They only group that could arguably claim discrimination are white males.
But how do you know the new graduate can program? Quite a few of them (most?) didn't bother to get a job as a programmer or something else while they were attending school so you can't check that reference.
A person without a C.S. degree, but with a solid work history will beat the new graduate every time. That degree is not nearly as important as people make it out to be. Work experience is what matters to employers. The degree might get you your first job, but if you're any good you should have already been working a job by the time you graduate.
A lot of low-end tech jobs in Silicon Valley start off at $10 per hour (depending on local minimum wage law).
I'm not gonna call bullshit, but... $10 an hour is less than what I made as a student working part-time for a small web development company in the late 90's. Hell, city workers make more than $10 an hour where I live.
Remember those old 90's Macs where the power button was on the keyboard?! There was a power switch on the computer case, but it wouldn't power the system on.
Every worthwhile CS program has at least one computer architecture course and probably a compiler course as well.
Yes, but those courses are typically electives and not requirements for a computer science degree.
I don't doubt that there are more than a few C.S. graduates that can't code FizzBuzz on their own. A large number of students in my computer architecture course couldn't wrap their heads around instruction pipelining and interleaved execution.
I lost 40 pounds (from 220 to 180) by working out three times a week at my Judo club. I made no changes to my diet. When I was working out regularly I could eat pretty much anything and keep the weight down. If I worked out twice a week I would maintain my current weight.
If I'm not working out I can easily gain weight, especially from alcohol. Maybe I'm putting myself in starvation mode, but I don't snack or drink sugary sodas and lose weight very slowly by diet alone. If I lose a pound or two this week there's a good chance I'm going to gain it back next week. My sleep habits aren't helping either. I tend to stay up late working on things and average about 6 hours a night during the week.
Don't put your IOT devices directly on the Internet, setup a VPN at home and use that to access them. Your phone should have a VPN client included and any apps should behave just like you were on the local network. Some devices will need outbound access, but not all. You can either pass all traffic out, or do a little investigative work and setup some filtering.
I use libreswan for VPN access, but it can be a little tricky to setup and get the routing correct. Does anyone make an easy to use VPN appliance?
Something similar happens with the water/sewer service where I live. If you don't have a water meter you get billed a (high) flat amount depending on the size of your property. If you have a meter installed, then you pay actual usage.
So I think you sir are full of it, and by announcing the death of privacy and encouraging people to ignore privacy and "move on", you are imo lulling people into a sense of defeatism.
This whole "privacy is dead" thing used to bug me too because I value my privacy pretty highly. It really means that if you want to use a lot of the modern tools we have available to us you have no choice but to give up your privacy.
If you want to get directions to a destination you have to turn on location services on your phone which then sends your location to a server to generate the maps/directions. You have the same problem if you're a runner or cyclist who wants to track their workouts. All of the data is stored and processed somewhere else.
If you install a messenger/comms app on your phone it wants to read your contacts so you don't have to manually copy the entries over. Who knows what else that app does with the information? If you use a hosted email service they have the ability to read your cleartext messages. If you want your pictures automatically backed up to "the cloud" then the provider can access them.
I would think that there would be a market for privacy protecting electronic devices. They would allow data to flow in from the Internet, but not back out. Any device to device communication would be done by physically touching the two together. All personal data would be stored locally and encrypted, possibly on a removable media card. Maps would be downloadable, but path generation, location tracking and logging would be done locally.
So why did Scotty try talking into the mouse first? And he didn't really notice the keyboard until it was pointed out to him. "A keyboard? How quaint!"
Honestly, your description sounds exactly like the type of person who would attempt to rewrite the init system. They think they can come up with a better system because they view themselves as some sort of computer genius. Yet, they lack the knowledge and experience to understand why what they are attempting is a bad idea.
The changes that are being made are breaking servers and they don't care. We're all expected to change our behavior to match the new system when the old ones worked just find for the majority of us. I'm just glad my employer has moved away from RHEL so I don't have to deal with this crap. I've never had a problem with either the old AT&T style or System V init system.
Thank you! I can't believe people are just buying into these claims of harm despite there being on evidence it's actually happening. Net Neutrality is a solution to an imagined problem.
Why should it be concern of the government if private companies are wronging the citizenry? Is that the exact question you are asking?
Which ISPs are wronging their customer? How are they doing it? I have yet to see any evidence of ISPs actually doing things like slowing connections and blocking sites, just a lot of talk about what they could do.
In the scenario you presented, a customer would just switch to a different ISP. But there aren't any other ISPs to switch to you say. Well, that's because government is allowing the monopoly. Now you think government is going to help you with Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality will be used to censor content and dictate behavior to service providers and it won't be for your benefit. Scare tactics are being used to persuade people who think with their emotions into supporting government takeover of yet another industry.
If you doubt me, take a look at what was done to private health insurance with the minimal essential coverage mandate. The government now gets to dictate which types of policies insurers can offer to their customers. People that only wanted and needed catastrophic coverage can't get those policies. Post-menopausal women have to pay for maternity coverage. People that abstain from drugs have to pay for rehabilitation coverage.
I believe that note taking is generally a bad thing. At least some brain power has to be diverted from paying attention into taking notes.
And honestly, few students read their own notes.
Madness. It's been demonstrated that the act of writing down notes helps you to remember what you just heard. You don't transcribe the lecture, you note what the professor focuses on and write headlines.
Few students read their own notes? How does one study without lecture notes?
I found that the following study strategy worked really well in college:
Read the material before class. Read the whole book by the first exam if possible; easier than you think since the first few weeks are really slow.
Split studying up into three one hour sessions spread throughout the day. More pleasant than a marathon session in the afternoon/evening.
Read your notes from classes at the end of each day.
Read the notes from the entire week at the end of each week.
Read the notes since the last exam and skim the textbook material again before an exam.
I have a hard time believing you have all of that with one person making $125,000 in Seattle. You must be carrying a lot of debt?
I'm in Chicago and make a bit more than you. New single-family construction on the south-side is going for $575,00; $250,000 gets you a fixer-upper. It would be a stretch for me to buy a single-family home, I'd be looking at a $130,000 down payment and then about $3000 in home owner expenses each month. I was happy to recently find a unique coach house behind an old mansion for sale for $379,000, but there's no real yard or views from the property.
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I average more than one Amazon order a week and I have never used 1-click shopping. It seems like a really bad idea to me, I don't need a mis-click on a product page to initiate an order.
Who uses it and why? Going through the checkout process only takes a few seconds; my payment and shipping details are saved so it's not like I have to enter them every time. Plus those 1-click purchases aren't earning any money for your selected charity like they would if you checked out on the smiles site.
Those vending machines were just for hype. You've been able to buy Spectacles online for a long time now.
I ordered a pair of Snaptacles online when they became available. I figured Snap wouldn't be around for long and thought it would be a neat toy to add to my collection of failed/obsolete tech.
The problem is they just don't work. I carried mine for a day and took videos until I ran out of space. When I got home and tried to retrieve the videos through the Snap app it just says "Failed". There's no way to get the videos off the Spectacles! I did find a workaround by marking videos as favorites and then saving to my camera roll, but then I can't view the video in the Snap app.
Pairing was a nightmare. Why do I have to look at an image instead of doing the normal Bluetooth pairing procedure? The Spectacles refuse to pair with my Moto X Pure!
The Snap stories don't work properly. You can only create a single story from all of your recorded videos and anything you don't want to include gets deleted. Did none of the developers actually use the Spectacles?
Then you have the bare-bones functionality. There's no way to record continuous video. There's no way to take a picture instead of a video. There's no way to automatically take a Snap every X number of minutes. There's no way to trigger the Snaptacles from the app itself.
What exactly do you think the wealthy do with their money? You think they just have a giant pile of cash lying around in a vault? Finding places to spend/invest the money is a real problem for wealthy people.
The wealthy buy companies, employ people and produce things. They put their money into fine art and automobiles and then build museums to house their collections. They invest in real estate and put up hotels and start restaurants. They do things like start racing teams and enter into competitions. They are also human and have human needs. They need to eat, sleep, socialize and relax just like everyone else.
If you want to get some of their money then you need to be providing them with either the services or products they need.
When is the MMR vaccine administered? There have been several recent Measles outbreaks in Minnesota's Somali communities due to anti-vaxers targeting them with misinformation campaigns.
Go do a six month contract for some agency to get a current employer on your resume. Then take some time to read up on AWS and spend a weekend or two to do a simple VPC deployment with ELB, Route 53, etc.
I'm a little shocked you would have any trouble landing a gig. You are applying for devops positions, right?
I went to school at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus in the last half of the 90's and they offered computer science under both the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Some of the in-major requirements are slightly different, like whether you take an Algorithms class taught by a Mathematics or an MIS professor, but overall the curriculums were comparable. Everyone learned C and there was an OOP elective to take if you wanted to learn C++ and Smalltalk.
I know people who graduated from both colleges and have never heard of employers having a preference for one of the other.
"Gone by 40." Right. Just give me a minute while I tell all of the people around me that they're not supposed to be working here because they're too old (including me).
Good programmers are always in demand. There's a shortage of them in the Chicago market right now, especially front-end developers.
Not sure what you're talking about wrt. sexism and discrimination unless you mean women and minorities are highly sought after, because they are. They only group that could arguably claim discrimination are white males.
Where do you live? Hicksville?
But how do you know the new graduate can program? Quite a few of them (most?) didn't bother to get a job as a programmer or something else while they were attending school so you can't check that reference.
A person without a C.S. degree, but with a solid work history will beat the new graduate every time. That degree is not nearly as important as people make it out to be. Work experience is what matters to employers. The degree might get you your first job, but if you're any good you should have already been working a job by the time you graduate.
A lot of low-end tech jobs in Silicon Valley start off at $10 per hour (depending on local minimum wage law).
I'm not gonna call bullshit, but... $10 an hour is less than what I made as a student working part-time for a small web development company in the late 90's. Hell, city workers make more than $10 an hour where I live.
Remember those old 90's Macs where the power button was on the keyboard?! There was a power switch on the computer case, but it wouldn't power the system on.
Every worthwhile CS program has at least one computer architecture course and probably a compiler course as well.
Yes, but those courses are typically electives and not requirements for a computer science degree.
I don't doubt that there are more than a few C.S. graduates that can't code FizzBuzz on their own. A large number of students in my computer architecture course couldn't wrap their heads around instruction pipelining and interleaved execution.
I lost 40 pounds (from 220 to 180) by working out three times a week at my Judo club. I made no changes to my diet. When I was working out regularly I could eat pretty much anything and keep the weight down. If I worked out twice a week I would maintain my current weight.
If I'm not working out I can easily gain weight, especially from alcohol. Maybe I'm putting myself in starvation mode, but I don't snack or drink sugary sodas and lose weight very slowly by diet alone. If I lose a pound or two this week there's a good chance I'm going to gain it back next week. My sleep habits aren't helping either. I tend to stay up late working on things and average about 6 hours a night during the week.
Don't put your IOT devices directly on the Internet, setup a VPN at home and use that to access them. Your phone should have a VPN client included and any apps should behave just like you were on the local network. Some devices will need outbound access, but not all. You can either pass all traffic out, or do a little investigative work and setup some filtering.
I use libreswan for VPN access, but it can be a little tricky to setup and get the routing correct. Does anyone make an easy to use VPN appliance?
Something similar happens with the water/sewer service where I live. If you don't have a water meter you get billed a (high) flat amount depending on the size of your property. If you have a meter installed, then you pay actual usage.
So I think you sir are full of it, and by announcing the death of privacy and encouraging people to ignore privacy and "move on", you are imo lulling people into a sense of defeatism.
This whole "privacy is dead" thing used to bug me too because I value my privacy pretty highly. It really means that if you want to use a lot of the modern tools we have available to us you have no choice but to give up your privacy.
If you want to get directions to a destination you have to turn on location services on your phone which then sends your location to a server to generate the maps/directions. You have the same problem if you're a runner or cyclist who wants to track their workouts. All of the data is stored and processed somewhere else.
If you install a messenger/comms app on your phone it wants to read your contacts so you don't have to manually copy the entries over. Who knows what else that app does with the information? If you use a hosted email service they have the ability to read your cleartext messages. If you want your pictures automatically backed up to "the cloud" then the provider can access them.
I would think that there would be a market for privacy protecting electronic devices. They would allow data to flow in from the Internet, but not back out. Any device to device communication would be done by physically touching the two together. All personal data would be stored locally and encrypted, possibly on a removable media card. Maps would be downloadable, but path generation, location tracking and logging would be done locally.
I thought boot message written to the console were logged to a separate file, like /var/log/messages.boot or /var/run/dmesg.boot?
So why did Scotty try talking into the mouse first? And he didn't really notice the keyboard until it was pointed out to him. "A keyboard? How quaint!"
Honestly, your description sounds exactly like the type of person who would attempt to rewrite the init system. They think they can come up with a better system because they view themselves as some sort of computer genius. Yet, they lack the knowledge and experience to understand why what they are attempting is a bad idea.
The changes that are being made are breaking servers and they don't care. We're all expected to change our behavior to match the new system when the old ones worked just find for the majority of us. I'm just glad my employer has moved away from RHEL so I don't have to deal with this crap. I've never had a problem with either the old AT&T style or System V init system.
Thank you! I can't believe people are just buying into these claims of harm despite there being on evidence it's actually happening. Net Neutrality is a solution to an imagined problem.
Why should it be concern of the government if private companies are wronging the citizenry? Is that the exact question you are asking?
Which ISPs are wronging their customer? How are they doing it? I have yet to see any evidence of ISPs actually doing things like slowing connections and blocking sites, just a lot of talk about what they could do.
In the scenario you presented, a customer would just switch to a different ISP. But there aren't any other ISPs to switch to you say. Well, that's because government is allowing the monopoly. Now you think government is going to help you with Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality will be used to censor content and dictate behavior to service providers and it won't be for your benefit. Scare tactics are being used to persuade people who think with their emotions into supporting government takeover of yet another industry.
If you doubt me, take a look at what was done to private health insurance with the minimal essential coverage mandate. The government now gets to dictate which types of policies insurers can offer to their customers. People that only wanted and needed catastrophic coverage can't get those policies. Post-menopausal women have to pay for maternity coverage. People that abstain from drugs have to pay for rehabilitation coverage.
Just want to point out the irony that when 100,000s of people complain about this: nothing happens
Complaining rarely solves problems. Now if those 100,000's of people had actually done something, like fund a PAC, then they might have seen results.
If my ISP screwed with my connections, then why would I keep using them?
I believe that note taking is generally a bad thing. At least some brain power has to be diverted from paying attention into taking notes. And honestly, few students read their own notes.
Madness. It's been demonstrated that the act of writing down notes helps you to remember what you just heard. You don't transcribe the lecture, you note what the professor focuses on and write headlines.
Few students read their own notes? How does one study without lecture notes?
I found that the following study strategy worked really well in college:
I have a hard time believing you have all of that with one person making $125,000 in Seattle. You must be carrying a lot of debt?
I'm in Chicago and make a bit more than you. New single-family construction on the south-side is going for $575,00; $250,000 gets you a fixer-upper. It would be a stretch for me to buy a single-family home, I'd be looking at a $130,000 down payment and then about $3000 in home owner expenses each month. I was happy to recently find a unique coach house behind an old mansion for sale for $379,000, but there's no real yard or views from the property.