Surely they've given you the opportunity to financial hurt them, by demonstrating a level of value in your company that makes their short selling extremely expensive to them.
If you can't demonstrate that level of value, it's not the fucking short that's putting your livelihood at risk.
Too fucking right I'd download a car if I could reproduce one as cheaply and accurately as a digital download. Why hand over stupidly large amounts of cash for something with so low a marginal cost of reproduction?
Of course, offer me a car at a reasonable price without inconvenient restrictions and you'll get a sale. Much like the digital content I buy already..
Why bulk up a laptop with a real keyboard when the laptop's primary features are mobility and compactness.
I added the hardware keyboard to my Surface Pro because it adds no more thickness than a decent case would, provides the same protection and includes some rather excellent utility.
for any extended duration typing a person is more likely to be at the office or at home
In the office I'm likely to be in the canteen drinking coffee. If I want to do work I'll work from home, so at work I'm talking to people.
At home I'm going to be sat on the recliner, feet up. Or maybe sat in the garden, cat lying beside me. Sometimes I'll be working from home while sat at the local pond, bait in the water, teleconference through my headset.
Basically I need devices that work away from desks, and that includes text input capabilities that let me type effectively.
My ISP didn't have to drop their advertised speeds.
I find Steam is a reliable speed test. Downloading a 17GB game at a rate faster in bytes/s than most of the UK gets in bits/s isn't actually worth the money I'm paying for it, but it does sustain it, even at peak usage times.
While the body is a mass of complex systems, so is an IT system.
Show me the medical professional that understands fully the workings of the body, right down to how each organ functions, the ways in which it can go wrong and the appropriate ways to fix it.
May as well ask me to show you the IT professional that can start with a mountain, mine it, process the ore, design a chip, fabricate it, build the rest of the computer around it, write the OS and then start on the application tier.
Neither professional exists. Meanwhile "xray shows a lump here, we'd best go chemo" is fundamentally the same as "log files show latency here, we'd best go CDN". Neither of them are engaged in the detail behind those solutions.
The difference is that an IT professional did design and build the CDN. No fucking doctor designed and built the lung with the lump in it.
Well, yes. I had the common bloody sense to focus on the back-end, the business, the difficult stuff. But that doesn't stop me even now getting dragged into "our website is slow, help us fix it" conversations.
Hey, here's an idea: Ditch the shit that's slowing it down.
While I would want evidence a humanities graduate can cope with the logic and other demands of programming, I do agree that this is hardly news.
People under 35 or so don't seem to realise how rare university degrees used to be. Some of the best programmers I've known didn't go to university. All of the best programmers I've known didn't get a degree in Computer Science.
That doesn't mean a CS degree is worthless. Any technical degree has merit. It just doesn't mean they're any good at delivering working software in a business environment, which is where the majority of programming jobs lie.
I have no objection to hiring CS grads but it's fucking lunacy to require it.
Elegance is irrelevant. Your website can be the most elegant hand crafted artisan display of html, CSS and four brutally optimised lines of javascript that implement an AI capable of delivering peace in the middle east, and it's still going to be shit:
The marketing and sales team are going to overload it with third party shit anyway, that upsets your users, tracks them, molests their children and ruins any attempt you've made to provide a clean usable experience.
Well, in the UK (let alone Germany) it'll get the local council issuing noise prevention orders.
Shit, I've had a neighbour complain about the sound of the fans in my computer. After I'd replaced the stock build ones with larger slower quieter ones and moved the computer away from the shared wall. When I asked the council what more I was meant to do their response was basically, "Sorry, we thought you were the issue. Clearly we were wrong; do nothing, we're going to call your neighbour."
It's a fair point. Not to mention the request to get this 30 year old running on carbon dioxide and helium, as the legacy nitrogen/oxygen mix is too expensive to continue to support.
Medics have it easy. Sure, the human body is a complex system, but - it's A complex system, not many - outcomes are pretty straightforward : Alive, healed - no innovation required (if illness A, issue medication B) - limited scope
That last one is massive. Lets take security. Medics don't have to protect their systems against intrusion attempts, malicious attacks, user ignorance, data loss or unsafe use.
A full stack engineer is like a medic that has to diagnose, dispense the right medicines, assure they're taken correctly, hire bodyguards for the patient, wrap them in cotton wool, prevent them from burning themselves while cooking and actively preventing them from climbing up steep mountains. They also have to do all their cooking, change their nappies, take the blame if they get pregnant, raise the child, and issue comprehensive documentation on how to dress each day.
You're absolutely right, other professions get by with a good memory. Lucky sods.
Look at the use cases for computers in the 60s. 90% of that can be done by installing a package. Or the 70s, or the 80s, or the 90s.
A million accountants worldwide program: They program a computer to read in data, manipulate it, transform it and output it again. They happen to use Excel to do this.
A million Android users automate their daily schedule. They use ITTT, or the new Samsung thing that got installed on my phone yesterday, or some other programmable automation tool.
Thousands of call centres are automated by people that barely know how to use a computer. They use Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere or an equivalent.
Full stack developers don't do this shit. They don't need to. They deal with more complex systems, that do more complex things, and write the tools that others use to do the easy shit.
Oddly enough it's hard. Robust, secure, scalable, performant code is easy, if you don't need it to do anything. When you're asked to make it do everything, and what 'everything' encompasses changes on a daily basis, and you're given a deadline that's too soon.. yeah, it's hard. So be professional, learn how to do it (including managing the requirements, the deadlines, the budgets and the ways to optimise the fuck out of the lot of them) and stop bitching.
Actually, yes, it is. The vast marketplace is the Google Play store.
Other marketplaces exist, including the Amazon app store, the Samsung app store and Fdroid. Or you could skip the lot and just sell on the street, doing other things to attract the footfall.
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So someone made a bet. So fucking what?
Surely they've given you the opportunity to financial hurt them, by demonstrating a level of value in your company that makes their short selling extremely expensive to them.
If you can't demonstrate that level of value, it's not the fucking short that's putting your livelihood at risk.
Too fucking right I'd download a car if I could reproduce one as cheaply and accurately as a digital download. Why hand over stupidly large amounts of cash for something with so low a marginal cost of reproduction?
Of course, offer me a car at a reasonable price without inconvenient restrictions and you'll get a sale. Much like the digital content I buy already..
This is Doctor Who. If it had quality set design and acting it would be a betrayal of a decades old legacy.
They know that someone with access to confidential materials is willing and able to share them outside the corporation.
I'd want to find out who that is, and revoke their access. Wouldn't you?
I know. I was mainly curious why that wasn't considered an OS.
Curious. So when I interacted with the storage device on a VIC-20 via the command line what was receiving, interpreting and acting upon my commands?
Why bulk up a laptop with a real keyboard when the laptop's primary features are mobility and compactness.
I added the hardware keyboard to my Surface Pro because it adds no more thickness than a decent case would, provides the same protection and includes some rather excellent utility.
for any extended duration typing a person is more likely to be at the office or at home
In the office I'm likely to be in the canteen drinking coffee. If I want to do work I'll work from home, so at work I'm talking to people.
At home I'm going to be sat on the recliner, feet up. Or maybe sat in the garden, cat lying beside me. Sometimes I'll be working from home while sat at the local pond, bait in the water, teleconference through my headset.
Basically I need devices that work away from desks, and that includes text input capabilities that let me type effectively.
You never used a VIC-20 then, or a Spectrum, or an Atari ST.
Great computers for their time. Glad I'm not constrained to their OS now.
My ISP didn't have to drop their advertised speeds.
I find Steam is a reliable speed test. Downloading a 17GB game at a rate faster in bytes/s than most of the UK gets in bits/s isn't actually worth the money I'm paying for it, but it does sustain it, even at peak usage times.
So how does this high tech modern wireless charger top up my phone's battery when I'm leaning back comfortably in my seat, my phone in my hand?
While the body is a mass of complex systems, so is an IT system.
Show me the medical professional that understands fully the workings of the body, right down to how each organ functions, the ways in which it can go wrong and the appropriate ways to fix it.
May as well ask me to show you the IT professional that can start with a mountain, mine it, process the ore, design a chip, fabricate it, build the rest of the computer around it, write the OS and then start on the application tier.
Neither professional exists. Meanwhile "xray shows a lump here, we'd best go chemo" is fundamentally the same as "log files show latency here, we'd best go CDN". Neither of them are engaged in the detail behind those solutions.
The difference is that an IT professional did design and build the CDN. No fucking doctor designed and built the lung with the lump in it.
No argument. No point arguing with people that post idiotic things like
. it is quite easy to have comfortable wealth and equality ... e.g. check Europe, especially Scandinavia, or Japan, Korea, and now emerging China.
then fail miserably to realise that none of those have wealth and equality, even when presented with evidence.
Well, yes. I had the common bloody sense to focus on the back-end, the business, the difficult stuff. But that doesn't stop me even now getting dragged into "our website is slow, help us fix it" conversations.
Hey, here's an idea: Ditch the shit that's slowing it down.
While I would want evidence a humanities graduate can cope with the logic and other demands of programming, I do agree that this is hardly news.
People under 35 or so don't seem to realise how rare university degrees used to be. Some of the best programmers I've known didn't go to university. All of the best programmers I've known didn't get a degree in Computer Science.
That doesn't mean a CS degree is worthless. Any technical degree has merit. It just doesn't mean they're any good at delivering working software in a business environment, which is where the majority of programming jobs lie.
I have no objection to hiring CS grads but it's fucking lunacy to require it.
Ok, lets do that check.
Sweden - https://www.thelocal.se/201702...
Norway - https://www.tnp.no/norway/econ...
Japan - https://www.bloomberg.com/grap...
Korea - http://english.hani.co.kr/arti...
China - https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...
Any more specious arguments you'd like to make?
I'll just share this fine catalogue of CIA competence:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyl...
Yeah, it's not even alliterative. At least go for crooked Clinton. No, wait, it's ambiguous who you mean with that. Hateful Hillary?
50% higher tariffs aren't a big difference?
Maybe you should go back to school.
Elegance is irrelevant. Your website can be the most elegant hand crafted artisan display of html, CSS and four brutally optimised lines of javascript that implement an AI capable of delivering peace in the middle east, and it's still going to be shit:
The marketing and sales team are going to overload it with third party shit anyway, that upsets your users, tracks them, molests their children and ruins any attempt you've made to provide a clean usable experience.
Well, in the UK (let alone Germany) it'll get the local council issuing noise prevention orders.
Shit, I've had a neighbour complain about the sound of the fans in my computer. After I'd replaced the stock build ones with larger slower quieter ones and moved the computer away from the shared wall. When I asked the council what more I was meant to do their response was basically, "Sorry, we thought you were the issue. Clearly we were wrong; do nothing, we're going to call your neighbour."
Shrug. Multiple installations are hardly something to fear.
It's a fair point. Not to mention the request to get this 30 year old running on carbon dioxide and helium, as the legacy nitrogen/oxygen mix is too expensive to continue to support.
Medics have it easy. Sure, the human body is a complex system, but
- it's A complex system, not many
- outcomes are pretty straightforward : Alive, healed
- no innovation required (if illness A, issue medication B)
- limited scope
That last one is massive. Lets take security. Medics don't have to protect their systems against intrusion attempts, malicious attacks, user ignorance, data loss or unsafe use.
A full stack engineer is like a medic that has to diagnose, dispense the right medicines, assure they're taken correctly, hire bodyguards for the patient, wrap them in cotton wool, prevent them from burning themselves while cooking and actively preventing them from climbing up steep mountains. They also have to do all their cooking, change their nappies, take the blame if they get pregnant, raise the child, and issue comprehensive documentation on how to dress each day.
You're absolutely right, other professions get by with a good memory. Lucky sods.
Look at the use cases for computers in the 60s. 90% of that can be done by installing a package.
Or the 70s, or the 80s, or the 90s.
A million accountants worldwide program: They program a computer to read in data, manipulate it, transform it and output it again. They happen to use Excel to do this.
A million Android users automate their daily schedule. They use ITTT, or the new Samsung thing that got installed on my phone yesterday, or some other programmable automation tool.
Thousands of call centres are automated by people that barely know how to use a computer. They use Blue Prism or Automation Anywhere or an equivalent.
Full stack developers don't do this shit. They don't need to. They deal with more complex systems, that do more complex things, and write the tools that others use to do the easy shit.
Oddly enough it's hard. Robust, secure, scalable, performant code is easy, if you don't need it to do anything. When you're asked to make it do everything, and what 'everything' encompasses changes on a daily basis, and you're given a deadline that's too soon.. yeah, it's hard. So be professional, learn how to do it (including managing the requirements, the deadlines, the budgets and the ways to optimise the fuck out of the lot of them) and stop bitching.
.. which is not Google's to sell access to.
Actually, yes, it is. The vast marketplace is the Google Play store.
Other marketplaces exist, including the Amazon app store, the Samsung app store and Fdroid. Or you could skip the lot and just sell on the street, doing other things to attract the footfall.
Which is what Epic are doing.