they'd pay the developers more to keep the skilled ones. Every time a developer leaves a company, a hunk of business knowledge walks out the door with him.
I've consistently found that companies do NOT value domain knowledge in developers very much. Many colleagues have agreed with me on this. I'm not sure exactly why, other than perhaps co's would rather have somebody skilled in the latest eye-candy UI's more than an expert on their domain; and somebody who has been in the company for a while may have let their UI "fad" skills slip compared to a hungry grad. It's called "ageism" in other contexts.
Books are judged by covers: UI fad compliance. Human nature. I've seen PHB's go gaga over "fashionable" and animated UI's, even giving a bastard dev a raise, and completely ignoring the horrid functionality and operational problems that came with it.
(I can rant all day about the state of UI technology/standards AND human reaction to it. UI issues wag the IT dog.)
Working for an employer you constantly seek to undermine is straight up bullshit. Either get out and berate them publicly, or work for the interests of who you are working for.
There is a bozotivity threshold once exceeded whereby that rule is out the window.
He got into a similar snafu in Australia a couple of years ago. That suggests he at least keeps playing too close to the line in terms of risking accusations. That's not necessarily saying he's guilty, just that he is doing something that invites accusations.
Agreed-upon convention alone can reduce the vast majority of problems without throwing away the baby with the bathwater. Public URL's should be in a form similar to: "theCompany.com/12345"
The number after the slash is a page ID (real or virtual). Maybe permit optional slugs such as: "theCompany.com/12345/slug-title-goes-here". But the slug is not required: to outsiders it's like a code comment. Misspelling the slug, if given, will not stop your results (although could provide suggestions if the numbered page is not found).
And, no sub-domains. (Back-end org URL translation can remap to physical servers.)
The convention would allow someone to go to "theCompany.com" and type "12345" in the site's search box to go directly to the target page. That way, you can type the company's name into the address bar to make sure you are not being tricked (such as with "s1ashdot.org"), and then enter or paste the page number at the site itself.
I once worked in "the basement", and lack of natural light was indeed a common complaint among colleagues. (Cockroaches were another problem there.)
They joked about getting rickets from lack of outdoor light. Even seeing a sliver of sky seems to calm people.
Companies may be able to pay lower salaries if they focus on personal perks. For example, instead of a raise, they could optionally give you menu of things like:
* Better chair * Bigger cubicle * Better monitor(s) * Cafeteria discounts * Foosball table * Nerf gun targets * Better parking spot * Bus/tram discounts * Being closer to windows (or further from Windows) * Better dev stack/language * Permission to troll Slashdot * Not getting yelled at when you screw up * More attractive colleagues (yes, men are horny, deal)
Once I was given a window office. It was really nice, but created mass jealously, being I wasn't a manager. It wasn't worth the complicated office politics it created. Some people are really petty.
I did not blame H1-B's. If anything, I blamed PHB's. Although, I'll admit I was ambiguous on that point.
But it is generally true that the cheaper the labor, the more features and "extras" you ask for. For example, say you have $40 a week to spend on gardening for your house. Let's say your first gardener charges $10 an hour. You calculate you can have 8 different kinds of flowers in your yard at that price.
If, however, the $10/hr gardener goes away, and the next cheapest gardener is $20/hr, you may have to cut back to say 4 different kinds of flowers.
Books are judged by their covers for the most part; it's human nature. I don't know an easy way around it. If more "minimalist" sites start out-competing the eye-candy sites in the market, then things could change. Craigslist is quite successful, but they are not really growing. They are kind of equivalent to a successful mom-and-pop store: perhaps profitable, but not seeking expansion.
Are you certain that your "tech sites" could function without the H1-Bs?
At first, not. But if cuts are forced, companies would have to remove some of the bloated and excessive layers of CSS and JS libraries to make their sites maintainable with less staff.
There's a lot of fat that can be trimmed. Craigslist runs just fine, and fast, without eye-candy and UI toys. If the H1-B's were cut back, the PHB's would just have to learn to say "no" to me-to gimmicks. (Craigslist is perhaps an extreme case, but something half-way between is possible.)
I had a TI calculator in college in the mid 80's that was a piece of junk. Keys would become harder to press, and the display got progressively dodgy. Eventually it would erase memory when certain keys were pressed. It had the lowest price per features, but you got what you paid for.
Slashdot Mirror
I've consistently found that companies do NOT value domain knowledge in developers very much. Many colleagues have agreed with me on this. I'm not sure exactly why, other than perhaps co's would rather have somebody skilled in the latest eye-candy UI's more than an expert on their domain; and somebody who has been in the company for a while may have let their UI "fad" skills slip compared to a hungry grad. It's called "ageism" in other contexts.
Books are judged by covers: UI fad compliance. Human nature. I've seen PHB's go gaga over "fashionable" and animated UI's, even giving a bastard dev a raise, and completely ignoring the horrid functionality and operational problems that came with it.
(I can rant all day about the state of UI technology/standards AND human reaction to it. UI issues wag the IT dog.)
There is a bozotivity threshold once exceeded whereby that rule is out the window.
Bad hair, and they point too much.
Our stack doesn't properly propagate errors. Could be theirs has a similar flaw. Plus, maybe not all layers are external.
Different parts may have a different traffic limit. Microservice 1 may continue even if Microservice 2 is not functioning properly, for example.
Their cloud clearly clouded the crowded cloud. Clods.
Maybe it's because everybody is telling everybody else to go take a look at blank results, flooding them further.
He simply hooked Amazon up to Hillary's server.
I'm a 3-star reader.
Shouldn't that be up to the passenger? Offer a discount for riding with annoying drivers. Just make sure it's not the default.
It's a dual-purpose orifice.
Well, okay, a rape (allegedly) happened at one of his parties. He was not accused of rape himself then. I stand corrected. Thanks.
At least he mostly rotates his rants. If kicked off of Twitter, his favorite medium, I bet it would be the majority focus of his tirades.
T would complain 24/7 if booted. Do you really want to hear that all the time from him?
He got into a similar snafu in Australia a couple of years ago. That suggests he at least keeps playing too close to the line in terms of risking accusations. That's not necessarily saying he's guilty, just that he is doing something that invites accusations.
Agreed-upon convention alone can reduce the vast majority of problems without throwing away the baby with the bathwater. Public URL's should be in a form similar to: "theCompany.com/12345"
The number after the slash is a page ID (real or virtual). Maybe permit optional slugs such as: "theCompany.com/12345/slug-title-goes-here". But the slug is not required: to outsiders it's like a code comment. Misspelling the slug, if given, will not stop your results (although could provide suggestions if the numbered page is not found).
And, no sub-domains. (Back-end org URL translation can remap to physical servers.)
The convention would allow someone to go to "theCompany.com" and type "12345" in the site's search box to go directly to the target page. That way, you can type the company's name into the address bar to make sure you are not being tricked (such as with "s1ashdot.org"), and then enter or paste the page number at the site itself.
I once worked in "the basement", and lack of natural light was indeed a common complaint among colleagues. (Cockroaches were another problem there.)
They joked about getting rickets from lack of outdoor light. Even seeing a sliver of sky seems to calm people.
Companies may be able to pay lower salaries if they focus on personal perks. For example, instead of a raise, they could optionally give you menu of things like:
* Better chair
* Bigger cubicle
* Better monitor(s)
* Cafeteria discounts
* Foosball table
* Nerf gun targets
* Better parking spot
* Bus/tram discounts
* Being closer to windows (or further from Windows)
* Better dev stack/language
* Permission to troll Slashdot
* Not getting yelled at when you screw up
* More attractive colleagues (yes, men are horny, deal)
Once I was given a window office. It was really nice, but created mass jealously, being I wasn't a manager. It wasn't worth the complicated office politics it created. Some people are really petty.
I did not blame H1-B's. If anything, I blamed PHB's. Although, I'll admit I was ambiguous on that point.
But it is generally true that the cheaper the labor, the more features and "extras" you ask for. For example, say you have $40 a week to spend on gardening for your house. Let's say your first gardener charges $10 an hour. You calculate you can have 8 different kinds of flowers in your yard at that price.
If, however, the $10/hr gardener goes away, and the next cheapest gardener is $20/hr, you may have to cut back to say 4 different kinds of flowers.
Books are judged by their covers for the most part; it's human nature. I don't know an easy way around it. If more "minimalist" sites start out-competing the eye-candy sites in the market, then things could change. Craigslist is quite successful, but they are not really growing. They are kind of equivalent to a successful mom-and-pop store: perhaps profitable, but not seeking expansion.
At first, not. But if cuts are forced, companies would have to remove some of the bloated and excessive layers of CSS and JS libraries to make their sites maintainable with less staff.
There's a lot of fat that can be trimmed. Craigslist runs just fine, and fast, without eye-candy and UI toys. If the H1-B's were cut back, the PHB's would just have to learn to say "no" to me-to gimmicks. (Craigslist is perhaps an extreme case, but something half-way between is possible.)
But on Slashdot you pretty much expect at least one. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Sheldons.
I thought it was Yoddish.
I had a TI calculator in college in the mid 80's that was a piece of junk. Keys would become harder to press, and the display got progressively dodgy. Eventually it would erase memory when certain keys were pressed. It had the lowest price per features, but you got what you paid for.
I think it was the TI 35 Slim-Line.
Hey, if they can run the White House from Twitter, one can run Slashdot from it also.
Yoda says "has".
But she's rusty in bed.