At least in part because it is packaged along side relatively simple office tools. And I have to support it. Yeah, I'm a little annoyed by it. You got a problem with that?
Now, maybe if I had a man with your J2EE/MS Access/VBA/ prowess as a coworker it wouldn't be a problem, but you're there and I'm here supporting MS Access and Filemaker abominations.
Sounds like my troll was right on the money. You do have a chip to bear because you do have to deal with the results of others forays with the tool. Therefore, its the toolmakers fault for allowing it, or at least for marketing it. No need for an insightful comment when the standard answer is right on the money. Perhaps another standard answer will hit the mark as well: DBAs crying "Access is not a database!" Might as well scream "Notepad is not an editor!" or "Volkswagens are not cars!"
What kind of hurdles did those idiots design to keep their fanboys from enjoying their software? And it's not so much that if I "want a PC, (I should) buy a PC", it's more of a, if I have an XBOX and PC on the same network, I would expect that they may talk to each other considered they were made by the same bunch of monkeys.
I'm sure they had a plan to sell you an "upgrade" to restore such functionality or they possibly thought you should by a Media PC, both at significantly higher cost and more $$$ to them.
Same reasoning that locks iPhones into AT&T and iPods into iTunes and a bazillion other devices into strange vertical markets. Vendor lock-in makes vendors money. The XBox is a perfect way to lock fanboys in.
Seriously!?
Microsoft doesn't have the vision to connect the XBOX to the computer on the same network using their own software????
Holy crap, what kind of idiots are running their divisions?
Idiots who know their market and how to make money of it. What sort of idiots would buy suck hardware then complain it won't extend beyond the purpose it was sold for. It was sold as a standalone gaming machine that could connect to Microsft servers via XBoxLive. It was not sold to connect to your own network nor to be a PC. Want a PC, buy a PC.
What is this? Some kind of stock response? Didn't you read what I wrote?
"Access databses produced by people who don't know what they are doing are horrendous abominations."
Not trying to start a flame war here but yes i read the quote and that's my point. Why not say "Anything produced by fools are horrendous abominations." Or is only possible for fools to create bad Access apps? What is your point? And what's your point about my point?
Sounded like you had a gripe about Access and how easy it lets fools build foolish things - a common attitude on Slash - to which the standard answer is "they should not build tools to make it easy for stupid people to stupid things".
Or worse, MS Access of Filemaker. Access databses produced by people who don't know what they are doing are horrendous abominations. I've no interest in having yet another user friendly database system that users can abuse and ask me to support.
Don't blame the tool because people use it inappropriately and then ask you to fix it. Access does enable a lot of people who would otherwise not be able to accomplish smaller database-type tasks and apps. Don't need to be a DBA to build a simple app with a couple of forms and tables.
I've built a lot of VB and Access apps with success. I've also built large scale J2EE systems with multiple forms, workflows, users and massive amounts of data clustered over multiple servers, domains and even countries. Some business needs can be settled by the first, some by the second, some by the first then the second. Horses for courses.
People still use hammers to nail in screws and then complain to carpenters when their shed falls down.
No, we need personal database software. The terabytes of data that homes will soon be accumulating require a better storage solution than a spreadsheet.
We do: we have MS Access.
Its a fabulous low-end database GUI built on a fairly robust RDMS engine for low volume usages. Best thing is every Windows 2000\XP\2003+ machine has ODBC drivers built in (not sure about Vista). Easy to build your own little apps or more advanced VB/.NET interfaces if your inclined. Hell, I built a J2EE shared calendar and multi-media catalog using an Access database as a start and it has worked butifully for the last 5 years.
Not on the same level as PostGres or (arguably MySQL) or a commercial RDMS but a great step up from a spreadsheet. Been around about as long too.
Just let me download and watch movies and TV shows to my TiVo.
You're generous. I want to be able to download and watch movies, TV, music videos and porn on any screen in the house at any time me or anybody else in the house wants to, even if its on a laptop whilst sitting on the trampoline in the back yard.
It's often like the industry is trying to sabotage itself.
Nah, they just believe that 95% of the population won't care enough to boycott and most will simply accept their terms and keep on shovelling money at them to view their latest blockbuster. They are probably right. It's likely a wise business move.
Anything Netflix is offering over the web I can also stream around the house if I want to.
I don't know what you mean here, but it reminds me of the folks who say "I can just torrent whatever I want."
Don't confuse streaming over the Internet and torrenting with streaming through a local network to another TV. He is saying "I can view it anywhere I want" not "I can get anything I want". Big difference.
He wants to view all of his content - even his legally obtained DRM content - anywhere in his house. Its exactly like expecting to place a TV or radio anywhere in the house and being allowed to watch and listen to the same channels. What if Channel 7 only let you watch Channel 7 on Sony branded TVs? What if you couldn't watch Channel 7 on a Sony TV if you had a Hitachi TV in the same house?
This would not be the first time that some idiot bluffed the US into thinking
that it was more powerful than it actually was. The cold war started this way.
The Cold War started (or at least massively escalated) because that idiot dropped a 57 Megaton hydrogen bomb! What a bluff! And only two years after agreeing with the rest of the world to halt all atmospheric nuclear testing. I'm sorry but the potential to generate a 4.6 KM fireball suggests an enemy with some real firepower.
When the machines take over they will probably turn off civillian GPS just to create chaos. That and the Internet, mobile phones and the global financial system.
Actually I can't think of a better way of inciting chaos then leaving them on. How much more distracted and disconnected our society is this last decade thanx so much to these handy Innovations. Now that I think about your point, perhaps it was the machines that introduced them as a way of softening up and dumbing down the population.
In twenty years time I'll be reminding you of this post and I'll be asking for my divy as promised. The hookers better be quality or the Moet is going up your arse.
GPSs foster insecurity and the inability to think analytically.
Mate you nailed it. I was once asked for directions to the nearest fast food joint, which was a couple of hundred metres down the main road and then right at the lights before the freeway. Easy peasy, right? No, not at all, the conversation followed along the lines of
"Hang on , what was that street? I've got GPS so it will tell me"
"It's literally just left then right at the lights"
"no, wait, my nav doesn't recognise the name. Can you spell it for me?"
"i think its called - wait - Dude, turn left, drive 200 m, then right at the lights!
"Did you say Heathcote Rd?"
Then I drove off and left her standing there. Wonder if she found it? shrug!
Now? Son, you must have been born yesterday. The IT industry - heck, all industry - has been like that from the beginning.
True. I've just been able to avoid it till now by concentrating on development and techie roles. Those roles are gone. Nobody does development anymore we all are just consultants using open source frameworks to glue blocks together.
Part of the message is the medium. If I wrote a love note full of sweetness and light, then delivered it stapled to a flaming bag of shit, I'll bet you'd have a hard time seeing the sweetness and light bits.
Also true. Sometimes it takes the bag of shit before it gets noticed. Sometimes, you just get so fed up you bile is all you have left. Still, that's his medium and we should at least try to see the underlying message rather than just react to the smell of burnt shit. If we ignore the astronomer because his way of telling us the asteriod is coming we have only ourselves to thank when we the asteroid hits. Whichever way he tells us we stil have to check out if there is truth there.
Well, I've got to agree with is insights into consultancies - having worked for three of them myself. Specifically Thoughtworx. I didn't work for them but was involved in a project where they were the lead and boy did I have to clean up some crap. The build was so fragile - um "agile" I guess - that it broke almost every run and none of my developers could get any work done. Continuous build, really, continuous break. And writing test cases before I write code? Come 'on, that's verifying the spec and my code can do that without test cases. Zed mentioned both points.
He also talked about the attitude in the industry where perception is far more important than output, and more so when your on a bleeding edge flavour of the day like Ruby. The fact that he wrote Ruby and has that attitutude reassures me that Ruby got away from him and the community turned it into the pile of horse shit it is today. Whatever he was trying to solve by moving from java to Ruby the code was taken away from him and those problems came back and worse.
I like the fact that he considers it unacceptable to reboot a production box even once a day, let alone 400 or 10. Once every few months I can live with, and that's the standard for production anything.
And I know what its like to be a little smarter, a little more attentive and a little more productive and careful, and then get taken advantage of or abused because I'm an egotist or just don't "respect" my peers. Prove your worth, prove your my peer and you'll gain my respect. He is rather annoyed at that attitude as well, which is so prevalant everywhere I go.
His speech about marshal arts, fights, etc is just because he's fed up and ranting - which he states quite plainly. No falsity there.
He seems honest and direct and those a qualities surely lacking in this world. Everywhere else its, say nice things and they'll like you and you keep your job no matter how inept you are. I'd hate for that attitude to prevail on this forum.
I think interesting development jobs still exist but your chances of finding them in a large firm is diminishing. Better to join a startup or found one of your own in order to tackle the interesting and difficult problems. Of course, this choice presents a lot less job security (for what that's worth nowadays) so if your have family obligations you'll have to determine if the risk is worth the satisfaction.
Yup, I tended to agree last year. Joined a start up a few years ago (didn't we all). It died. bounced around boring large corporation jobs then join a small niche firm that had survived the dot bomb - and found out it died two years ago just the body hadn't realised it was dead yet - and then it died. Back forth back forth. Ho hum:-) Be bored and insulted everyday and earn money; or be interested and challenged and live on the street. Welcome to 21st Cent.
So you have been a CTO, built compilers and grew a company to $16M - and yet you still come across as a whiney child. Well done. What's that got to do with anything?
It seems your logic is "speaks foul language therefore not articulate and talented". Very narrow logic. Some of the brightest, talented, insightful minds in history swore like sailors.
I'm not offended by gutter language because I'm a grown-up and realise four letter words are still just words. They express an idea as any other word. Do you fuck your woman (or man) or do you "make love" to her? I do both depending on what mood we are both in. Can you distinguish between the two or just stink your fingers in your ears after the first. Fuck me. My five year old laughs at the word fuck but by the time he's twenty I expect he'll know the difference between fucking and making love.
A blog is not a professional op-ed: it is a forum for whomever to write whatever and to be read by any other. Don;t like it, go read disney.com
That's why I'm a sysadmin by choice and NOT a software engineer. If you hate it that much, change careers. You get to find a decent position that you like, and still maintain your self respect.
And I'm seriously considering it. Leave coding to having fun coding my home AI and no more of these boring insurance quotation forms. I'd be bored being a sys admin too. Oh where's the challenge in this world? It ain't in IT anymore. That's the background current to Zed's rant I think. He's as bored as I am. Leave the coding (sorry, I can't call this shit "engineering" anymore) to the rats and monkeys and put them in the first ship. I'll be on the second ship - I promise.
After skimming past a few paragraphs and seeing the level of his discourse, I had no confidence in his credibility and stopped reading.
Its a fucking blog. An opinion only, not the fucking bible or an op-ed in the paper. What credibility do you require for a fucking off-the-cuff blog????? He's just speaking out with whatever goes through his head at the time his fingers are on the keyboard - and he tells you that in the first paragraph. What did you expect or want?
If you don't like it then don't read it and don't go to the effort of telling us you didn't read it and why you didn't read it. This is a commentary for those that did read it and want to discuss whatever salient points he might have (and he had plenty!).
"Oh look mum, they posted my comment on Slashdot! Whoa I'm on the web! I'm important!" We need an IQ test for membership to Slashdot. A simple test to prove commentors actually have an IQ. Otherwise we're just a news.com comments page.
I'm confused. Is this an attempt to knock down Ruby or Rails (Two things I know next to nothing about)? Because if it is, this is the worst argument against anything I've ever read.
Not really, he's just stating his reasons for getting out. But yes he's knocking the project and the people involved, so yes obviously the code itself is tarnished as a result. Half the benefit of FOSS is the community and if the community are MBA script kiddies with egos and the maturity of fifteen year old footballers then that benefit goes and your left with a bunch of code you didn't write and don't understand to run your project on.
Let me guess - and its an assumption on my part - but you think RoR is a great piece of kit right? easy to use, none of that messy boilerplate or other frameworks, up and running in 5 minutes. And you're probably way satisfied you only have to reboot your mission critical apps 10 times a day now. Solid enough to run any social network on.
I agree. I've been known in the past to do some stupid things as far as blogs and stuff go. I don't do them anymore. This guy doesn't appear to have learned that lesson.
That's the entire point of his article. He did learn that lesson - and chose not the abide by it. He chose to write the blog anyway. Not because he didn't understand, but because he is fed up with the software engineering world. Well, there's no real engineering left, its a Lemon Market now full of "consultants". He is using his experience in Ruby to explain that. I could give the same stories about my experiences in the J2EE world - and that's supposed to be "serious" coding.
He understands the lesson - just feels he can handle the consequences of not abiding and doing his own thing.
And for all the slashdotters that were offended by his "language" or "attitude" and stopped reading after the first x lines: grow up or go back to Digg. Ignore the delivery method and attempt to understand the subject and its context. Words are just words, and his points are still valid. Rational, mature discussion gets passed "Mummy, I didn't like he used a swear word and I'm just not reading it any more:-P:-P".
If the iMac revolutionized anything It should computers didn't have to be a large beige box, that looked it like belongs in a cube farm instead of someone's home. It took Dell 5 more years to figure that part out.
Cause that's the important feature of an computing device. It looks nice - well, er, nicer than a beige box. Cause Dell were just aiming at a different type of sheep. Maybe Apple can "innovate" handbags or fridges next. Hell, maybe Jobs should talk to NASA. I betcha a few "important" design modifications - like a new shape and colour paint - will fix those tired old space shuttles right up, and we be flying to the moon by 2012!
I'm guessing you're a sole trader. Its a pure guess cause I know there are morons out there who would work for such an employer if you gave them $5 more and benefits. 75% of people are middle men and don't produce squat, merely there to create inefficiencies in the market to gain for themselves. That includes any owner of any company I've ever met. Except mine, of course, but then I am my own company.
While the others you quote are all mainstream media, the SMH is generally a very good source of tech news.
Used to be, Raven, used to be. The Australian IT also used to be a good source a few years ago. Now both seem to pop out an article only every day or two and its mostly marketing material for consumers. Very little news or detail. Complaining, I am not, just recognising that SMH and Australian IT changed their market focus and now no longer cater for IT folk. We've been outnumbered and pushed aside by sheeple looking for "new toys".
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Sounds like my troll was right on the money. You do have a chip to bear because you do have to deal with the results of others forays with the tool. Therefore, its the toolmakers fault for allowing it, or at least for marketing it. No need for an insightful comment when the standard answer is right on the money. Perhaps another standard answer will hit the mark as well: DBAs crying "Access is not a database!" Might as well scream "Notepad is not an editor!" or "Volkswagens are not cars!"
I'm sure they had a plan to sell you an "upgrade" to restore such functionality or they possibly thought you should by a Media PC, both at significantly higher cost and more $$$ to them.
Same reasoning that locks iPhones into AT&T and iPods into iTunes and a bazillion other devices into strange vertical markets. Vendor lock-in makes vendors money. The XBox is a perfect way to lock fanboys in.
Idiots who know their market and how to make money of it. What sort of idiots would buy suck hardware then complain it won't extend beyond the purpose it was sold for. It was sold as a standalone gaming machine that could connect to Microsft servers via XBoxLive. It was not sold to connect to your own network nor to be a PC. Want a PC, buy a PC.
Not trying to start a flame war here but yes i read the quote and that's my point. Why not say "Anything produced by fools are horrendous abominations." Or is only possible for fools to create bad Access apps? What is your point? And what's your point about my point?
Sounded like you had a gripe about Access and how easy it lets fools build foolish things - a common attitude on Slash - to which the standard answer is "they should not build tools to make it easy for stupid people to stupid things".
Don't blame the tool because people use it inappropriately and then ask you to fix it. Access does enable a lot of people who would otherwise not be able to accomplish smaller database-type tasks and apps. Don't need to be a DBA to build a simple app with a couple of forms and tables.
I've built a lot of VB and Access apps with success. I've also built large scale J2EE systems with multiple forms, workflows, users and massive amounts of data clustered over multiple servers, domains and even countries. Some business needs can be settled by the first, some by the second, some by the first then the second. Horses for courses.
People still use hammers to nail in screws and then complain to carpenters when their shed falls down.
We do: we have MS Access.
Its a fabulous low-end database GUI built on a fairly robust RDMS engine for low volume usages. Best thing is every Windows 2000\XP\2003+ machine has ODBC drivers built in (not sure about Vista). Easy to build your own little apps or more advanced VB/.NET interfaces if your inclined. Hell, I built a J2EE shared calendar and multi-media catalog using an Access database as a start and it has worked butifully for the last 5 years.
Not on the same level as PostGres or (arguably MySQL) or a commercial RDMS but a great step up from a spreadsheet. Been around about as long too.
Then why don't you write one? Open source is open to contributers who want new tools.
What was the infraction? Publishing images of their own cars and even their own logo? Using the word "Ford"?
You're generous. I want to be able to download and watch movies, TV, music videos and porn on any screen in the house at any time me or anybody else in the house wants to, even if its on a laptop whilst sitting on the trampoline in the back yard.
Oh wait. I can. I do. Carry on without me.
Nah, they just believe that 95% of the population won't care enough to boycott and most will simply accept their terms and keep on shovelling money at them to view their latest blockbuster. They are probably right. It's likely a wise business move.
Don't confuse streaming over the Internet and torrenting with streaming through a local network to another TV. He is saying "I can view it anywhere I want" not "I can get anything I want". Big difference.
He wants to view all of his content - even his legally obtained DRM content - anywhere in his house. Its exactly like expecting to place a TV or radio anywhere in the house and being allowed to watch and listen to the same channels. What if Channel 7 only let you watch Channel 7 on Sony branded TVs? What if you couldn't watch Channel 7 on a Sony TV if you had a Hitachi TV in the same house?
The Cold War started (or at least massively escalated) because that idiot dropped a 57 Megaton hydrogen bomb! What a bluff! And only two years after agreeing with the rest of the world to halt all atmospheric nuclear testing. I'm sorry but the potential to generate a 4.6 KM fireball suggests an enemy with some real firepower.
Actually I can't think of a better way of inciting chaos then leaving them on. How much more distracted and disconnected our society is this last decade thanx so much to these handy Innovations. Now that I think about your point, perhaps it was the machines that introduced them as a way of softening up and dumbing down the population.
In twenty years time I'll be reminding you of this post and I'll be asking for my divy as promised. The hookers better be quality or the Moet is going up your arse.
Mate you nailed it. I was once asked for directions to the nearest fast food joint, which was a couple of hundred metres down the main road and then right at the lights before the freeway. Easy peasy, right? No, not at all, the conversation followed along the lines of
"It's literally just left then right at the lights"
"no, wait, my nav doesn't recognise the name. Can you spell it for me?"
"i think its called - wait - Dude, turn left, drive 200 m, then right at the lights!
"Did you say Heathcote Rd?"
Then I drove off and left her standing there. Wonder if she found it? shrug!
True. I've just been able to avoid it till now by concentrating on development and techie roles. Those roles are gone. Nobody does development anymore we all are just consultants using open source frameworks to glue blocks together.
Also true. Sometimes it takes the bag of shit before it gets noticed. Sometimes, you just get so fed up you bile is all you have left. Still, that's his medium and we should at least try to see the underlying message rather than just react to the smell of burnt shit. If we ignore the astronomer because his way of telling us the asteriod is coming we have only ourselves to thank when we the asteroid hits. Whichever way he tells us we stil have to check out if there is truth there.
Well, I've got to agree with is insights into consultancies - having worked for three of them myself. Specifically Thoughtworx. I didn't work for them but was involved in a project where they were the lead and boy did I have to clean up some crap. The build was so fragile - um "agile" I guess - that it broke almost every run and none of my developers could get any work done. Continuous build, really, continuous break. And writing test cases before I write code? Come 'on, that's verifying the spec and my code can do that without test cases. Zed mentioned both points.
He also talked about the attitude in the industry where perception is far more important than output, and more so when your on a bleeding edge flavour of the day like Ruby. The fact that he wrote Ruby and has that attitutude reassures me that Ruby got away from him and the community turned it into the pile of horse shit it is today. Whatever he was trying to solve by moving from java to Ruby the code was taken away from him and those problems came back and worse.
I like the fact that he considers it unacceptable to reboot a production box even once a day, let alone 400 or 10. Once every few months I can live with, and that's the standard for production anything.
And I know what its like to be a little smarter, a little more attentive and a little more productive and careful, and then get taken advantage of or abused because I'm an egotist or just don't "respect" my peers. Prove your worth, prove your my peer and you'll gain my respect. He is rather annoyed at that attitude as well, which is so prevalant everywhere I go.
His speech about marshal arts, fights, etc is just because he's fed up and ranting - which he states quite plainly. No falsity there.
He seems honest and direct and those a qualities surely lacking in this world. Everywhere else its, say nice things and they'll like you and you keep your job no matter how inept you are. I'd hate for that attitude to prevail on this forum.
Yup, I tended to agree last year. Joined a start up a few years ago (didn't we all). It died. bounced around boring large corporation jobs then join a small niche firm that had survived the dot bomb - and found out it died two years ago just the body hadn't realised it was dead yet - and then it died. Back forth back forth. Ho hum :-) Be bored and insulted everyday and earn money; or be interested and challenged and live on the street. Welcome to 21st Cent.
So you have been a CTO, built compilers and grew a company to $16M - and yet you still come across as a whiney child. Well done. What's that got to do with anything?
It seems your logic is "speaks foul language therefore not articulate and talented". Very narrow logic. Some of the brightest, talented, insightful minds in history swore like sailors.
I'm not offended by gutter language because I'm a grown-up and realise four letter words are still just words. They express an idea as any other word. Do you fuck your woman (or man) or do you "make love" to her? I do both depending on what mood we are both in. Can you distinguish between the two or just stink your fingers in your ears after the first. Fuck me. My five year old laughs at the word fuck but by the time he's twenty I expect he'll know the difference between fucking and making love.
A blog is not a professional op-ed: it is a forum for whomever to write whatever and to be read by any other. Don;t like it, go read disney.com
And I'm seriously considering it. Leave coding to having fun coding my home AI and no more of these boring insurance quotation forms. I'd be bored being a sys admin too. Oh where's the challenge in this world? It ain't in IT anymore. That's the background current to Zed's rant I think. He's as bored as I am. Leave the coding (sorry, I can't call this shit "engineering" anymore) to the rats and monkeys and put them in the first ship. I'll be on the second ship - I promise.
Its a fucking blog. An opinion only, not the fucking bible or an op-ed in the paper. What credibility do you require for a fucking off-the-cuff blog????? He's just speaking out with whatever goes through his head at the time his fingers are on the keyboard - and he tells you that in the first paragraph. What did you expect or want?
If you don't like it then don't read it and don't go to the effort of telling us you didn't read it and why you didn't read it. This is a commentary for those that did read it and want to discuss whatever salient points he might have (and he had plenty!).
"Oh look mum, they posted my comment on Slashdot! Whoa I'm on the web! I'm important!" We need an IQ test for membership to Slashdot. A simple test to prove commentors actually have an IQ. Otherwise we're just a news.com comments page.
Not really, he's just stating his reasons for getting out. But yes he's knocking the project and the people involved, so yes obviously the code itself is tarnished as a result. Half the benefit of FOSS is the community and if the community are MBA script kiddies with egos and the maturity of fifteen year old footballers then that benefit goes and your left with a bunch of code you didn't write and don't understand to run your project on.
Let me guess - and its an assumption on my part - but you think RoR is a great piece of kit right? easy to use, none of that messy boilerplate or other frameworks, up and running in 5 minutes. And you're probably way satisfied you only have to reboot your mission critical apps 10 times a day now. Solid enough to run any social network on.
That's the entire point of his article. He did learn that lesson - and chose not the abide by it. He chose to write the blog anyway. Not because he didn't understand, but because he is fed up with the software engineering world. Well, there's no real engineering left, its a Lemon Market now full of "consultants". He is using his experience in Ruby to explain that. I could give the same stories about my experiences in the J2EE world - and that's supposed to be "serious" coding.
He understands the lesson - just feels he can handle the consequences of not abiding and doing his own thing.
And for all the slashdotters that were offended by his "language" or "attitude" and stopped reading after the first x lines: grow up or go back to Digg. Ignore the delivery method and attempt to understand the subject and its context. Words are just words, and his points are still valid. Rational, mature discussion gets passed "Mummy, I didn't like he used a swear word and I'm just not reading it any more :-P :-P".
Cause that's the important feature of an computing device. It looks nice - well, er, nicer than a beige box. Cause Dell were just aiming at a different type of sheep. Maybe Apple can "innovate" handbags or fridges next. Hell, maybe Jobs should talk to NASA. I betcha a few "important" design modifications - like a new shape and colour paint - will fix those tired old space shuttles right up, and we be flying to the moon by 2012!
I'm guessing you're a sole trader. Its a pure guess cause I know there are morons out there who would work for such an employer if you gave them $5 more and benefits. 75% of people are middle men and don't produce squat, merely there to create inefficiencies in the market to gain for themselves. That includes any owner of any company I've ever met. Except mine, of course, but then I am my own company.
Used to be, Raven, used to be. The Australian IT also used to be a good source a few years ago. Now both seem to pop out an article only every day or two and its mostly marketing material for consumers. Very little news or detail. Complaining, I am not, just recognising that SMH and Australian IT changed their market focus and now no longer cater for IT folk. We've been outnumbered and pushed aside by sheeple looking for "new toys".