"They're not hired for their technical skills or coding ability. They're hired because they're cheap and easily abused."
I think I know what you meant, but reading this literally leaves me with the thought 'God, you're dumb...'
Of course employers hire offshore or H1B workers that actually have skillz. Maybe they don't have experience, especially with the current project, or they have low-level experience, but the equation is 'get the work done for less expense'. If successful, no complaints from management. If not, well, failure.
But even indulging in the hyperbole of 'not hired for their technical skills or coding ability' adds nothing to the debate. These workers are hired for lower cost and adequate skills. If the value proposition of the incumbents is more skills drive better results that are worth the expense, better start making it every single day.
The team I work on isn't coding or 'developing', but we add value on every single task, or we risk being seen as easily expendable. Or worse, replaceable by marginally competent workers. We sell ourselves constantly.
You better also. The future belongs to the competitive.
Solar PV, battery storage, fueled generator backup.
Fiber and CAT6+ in every room. Decent wiring panel. Switches installed. Whole house firewall. WiFi APs in the best spots right up front.
LED lighting, Occupancy sensing controls. RGB LEDs and color control, with inputs for environmental sensing and adaptation.
Whole house interior and backyard/patio sound system with both wired and wireless controls.
Electric locks on all exterior doors, PIN pads and secure web control.
Garage door opener with secure web-based control, and monitoring.
I know, it's cute when someone says 'secure this or that'. There is no security. Let's include a home security system and server with robust and replicated logging. At least I can reasonably know I was hacked, trespassed, and violated. Maybe. Add in some intelligent monitoring and notification to the police, me, and the wife at least.I don't need the optional Facebook/Twitter posting module, though it would be fun to post the intruder's face in real time.
Oh, and alarms on external components like the A/C unit, pool equipment, people steal the darnedest stuff.
In Arizona, solar assist hot water.
For a pool, the obvious variable speed pump etc. More surveillance.
For the patio (Arizona, remember) a full outdoor kitchen, which is not really technology, but too important.
And built-in safes, for valuables and separate ones for firearms, one in the bedroom and one elsewhere. Fingerprint tech of course.
Coding to spec is the definition of a worker doing what they ate expected to do. Most of our projects require fewer than 12 coders, but some have over 100. Having implemented the Agile process, lots of work is of smaller scope, and we correct errors quicker avoiding huge problems at the end of the project. The results have been dramatic.
The low bar is expecting that candidates that can demonstrate adequate understandling of the programming tasks they are likely to be given pass the first interview hurdle. Next up, can they understand and be understood...
I adjusted my ejectrode to jumper the OBDII port on my car and add a new remote to the keyless entry.
But more fun was to buy a remote case/flip key fob for it. And then find a locksmith that would cut the keystub for me. Now I have one of those flippy-key things like the VW and MB owners have, and saved about $35,000 on the car.
No, but I am perhaps being passive-agressive by both using my phone to reply, leaving some of the stray characters and bad auto corrects in place, as well as the artifacts from m. Slashdot. Org, which is just pus.
My job title is 'Technical Analyst'. I don't use spreadsheets as data sources so much as I use phone calls, emails, etc. My work is providing second level support for software, web sites, and various automated processes.
The most important skill for my I job is communicating, with troubleshooting and analysis right behind it. If software to replace me becomes useful, I expect the systems I support to become self-healing and self-reporting. I'm not worried right now.
Oddly, with I last talked with a programming director about job skills, they listed communications as the most important differentiator, as most candidates could code or design or work to specifications. Kind of explains the focus towards onshoring work, reducing the offshore contingent.
In focusing on work that takes direct contact. Plenty of that in the technologies field still.
As has been discussed in the thread repeatedly, this is marketing. That you don't understand it is important, but if you did then retailers would just decide new tactics.
It's the butthurt sense of done to you that bothers me. When your argument starts with 'they should...', I know you are precisely the audience that Karl Marx was writing to. Self-centered, naÃve, with a well developed sense of righteousness.
When you know how 'sales', coupons, and other offers work, you make better decisions.
I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?
- my other favorite burger place doesn't. - prices are within pennies of each other. - service is great at both. - either place satisfies me with the burger. - the freebie place also gives unlimited fries (dead giveaway there).
I'm getting an advantage. Essentially an effective 8% discount.
And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink. Any restaurant that has tables and napkins is probably cheering $2.50+ for fountain drinks. 90% profit.
No. Topspin/backspin change direction, but not dimension. Time is not a significant consideration for 99% of players. The 1% pocketing more than one ball on a shot regularly may have that problem occasionally. Three-cushion billiards more so.
Other the 60 page soliloquy and an odd fixation on thin shiny people doing what she thought thin shiny people ought to do with one another, it's both prescient and alarming. Not as tedious as it could be.
Slashdot Mirror
3rd in line to the presidency.
Just to be accurate, you know...
The company I work for is using operational expense reductions to fund development and growth. Capital is hard to come by.
Nothing is free.
"They're not hired for their technical skills or coding ability. They're hired because they're cheap and easily abused."
I think I know what you meant, but reading this literally leaves me with the thought 'God, you're dumb...'
Of course employers hire offshore or H1B workers that actually have skillz. Maybe they don't have experience, especially with the current project, or they have low-level experience, but the equation is 'get the work done for less expense'. If successful, no complaints from management. If not, well, failure.
But even indulging in the hyperbole of 'not hired for their technical skills or coding ability' adds nothing to the debate. These workers are hired for lower cost and adequate skills. If the value proposition of the incumbents is more skills drive better results that are worth the expense, better start making it every single day.
The team I work on isn't coding or 'developing', but we add value on every single task, or we risk being seen as easily expendable. Or worse, replaceable by marginally competent workers. We sell ourselves constantly.
You better also. The future belongs to the competitive.
Change the rules, change the behavior.
Your elected representatives are the first step.
Give it up.. Nobody competent needs more than a single line of Python code to do anything useful.
And yes, I hire that work out... I'm busy adding value to relationships.
The radio firmware. Part of the image.
Zorg knew the music.
External surveillance.
Solar PV, battery storage, fueled generator backup.
Fiber and CAT6+ in every room. Decent wiring panel. Switches installed. Whole house firewall. WiFi APs in the best spots right up front.
LED lighting, Occupancy sensing controls. RGB LEDs and color control, with inputs for environmental sensing and adaptation.
Whole house interior and backyard/patio sound system with both wired and wireless controls.
Electric locks on all exterior doors, PIN pads and secure web control.
Garage door opener with secure web-based control, and monitoring.
I know, it's cute when someone says 'secure this or that'. There is no security. Let's include a home security system and server with robust and replicated logging. At least I can reasonably know I was hacked, trespassed, and violated. Maybe. Add in some intelligent monitoring and notification to the police, me, and the wife at least.I don't need the optional Facebook/Twitter posting module, though it would be fun to post the intruder's face in real time.
Oh, and alarms on external components like the A/C unit, pool equipment, people steal the darnedest stuff.
In Arizona, solar assist hot water.
For a pool, the obvious variable speed pump etc. More surveillance.
For the patio (Arizona, remember) a full outdoor kitchen, which is not really technology, but too important.
And built-in safes, for valuables and separate ones for firearms, one in the bedroom and one elsewhere. Fingerprint tech of course.
Ho tech and Lo tech FTW.
Wrong music. You may not recognize it, but some did.
First, the radio will be different. Is only for provisioning.
Second, it is always a carrier decision in North America to actually deploy
Third, manufacturers may not offer the upgrade if they believe it is technically unfeasible, usually due to performance issues.
Coding to spec is the definition of a worker doing what they ate expected to do. Most of our projects require fewer than 12 coders, but some have over 100. Having implemented the Agile process, lots of work is of smaller scope, and we correct errors quicker avoiding huge problems at the end of the project. The results have been dramatic.
The low bar is expecting that candidates that can demonstrate adequate understandling of the programming tasks they are likely to be given pass the first interview hurdle. Next up, can they understand and be understood...
I adjusted my ejectrode to jumper the OBDII port on my car and add a new remote to the keyless entry.
But more fun was to buy a remote case/flip key fob for it. And then find a locksmith that would cut the keystub for me. Now I have one of those flippy-key things like the VW and MB owners have, and saved about $35,000 on the car.
If I saw you in your T-shirt, I'd ask you if you recognized the music.
Lots of people keep posting about how rude LG is.
This is a carrier problem. Plain and simple.
Rogers is accused of bad support regularly, so I'm not surprised.
No, but I am perhaps being passive-agressive by both using my phone to reply, leaving some of the stray characters and bad auto corrects in place, as well as the artifacts from m. Slashdot. Org, which is just pus.
Thank you for caring, though.
My job title is 'Technical Analyst'. I don't use spreadsheets as data sources so much as I use phone calls, emails, etc. My work is providing second level support for software, web sites, and various automated processes.
The most important skill for my I job is communicating, with troubleshooting and analysis right behind it. If software to replace me becomes useful, I expect the systems I support to become self-healing and self-reporting. I'm not worried right now.
Oddly, with I last talked with a programming director about job skills, they listed communications as the most important differentiator, as most candidates could code or design or work to specifications. Kind of explains the focus towards onshoring work, reducing the offshore contingent.
In focusing on work that takes direct contact. Plenty of that in the technologies field still.
I think of it as a discount. In not getting a lower price for not participating.
As has been discussed in the thread repeatedly, this is marketing. That you don't understand it is important, but if you did then retailers would just decide new tactics.
It's the butthurt sense of done to you that bothers me. When your argument starts with 'they should...', I know you are precisely the audience that Karl Marx was writing to. Self-centered, naÃve, with a well developed sense of righteousness.
When you know how 'sales', coupons, and other offers work, you make better decisions.
I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?
- my other favorite burger place doesn't.
- prices are within pennies of each other.
- service is great at both.
- either place satisfies me with the burger.
- the freebie place also gives unlimited fries (dead giveaway there).
I'm getting an advantage. Essentially an effective 8% discount.
And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink. Any restaurant that has tables and napkins is probably cheering $2.50+ for fountain drinks. 90% profit.
When I pronounce it that way, I'm intentional.
Step 1. will take some work but could be adapted to decline coupons just like declining a payment method.
All of this presumes the losses are actually worth the effort. I bet they aren't.
No. Topspin/backspin change direction, but not dimension. Time is not a significant consideration for 99% of players. The 1% pocketing more than one ball on a shot regularly may have that problem occasionally. Three-cushion billiards more so.
And telling me we don't have steam irons in the US does?
Other the 60 page soliloquy and an odd fixation on thin shiny people doing what she thought thin shiny people ought to do with one another, it's both prescient and alarming. Not as tedious as it could be.
She was no Neal Stephenson.
And you're back. How was it?
It's 'nuculer'. Sheesh.