I taught my 2 year old the chorus and first verse as a lullaby. She obviously doesn't understand a lot of the vocabulary but she can recite it perfectly. I know most people probably don't care, but that song and TMBG is a helpful part of introducing my daughter to the wonderful world of science.
The retarded capitalist in me thinks that these other countries are going to put highly trained people to build and maintain these facilities out of work while simultaneously destroying the market for the radioactive isotopes that are used to generate nuclear power. The wise investor would use this buying opportunity to scoop up those resources at discount prices and increase our nuclear power output. Of course, this is what I like to call "making sense" so nothing of the sort will occur.
You just gave me a great idea for a Chrome/Firefox plug-in. Universal replace. You set up key value pairs.. every instance of [key] on every page you visit will be replaced with [value].
Real troubleshooting tools? Oh no sir, not at any big corporation. Those types of "hacking" tools are not allowed to be used on our network by mere mortals.
I dunno, seems like a cake job to me. As a programmer I can assure you that the problem is never the network. Just ask the network guys, they'll be sure to tell you. Never mind the trace-route, pings, and FTP client log showing 100 byte/sec transfer speed I have provided, the single green LED graphic on the monitoring tool indicates with absolute certainty that all things on the network are working swimmingly.
I never argued that Oracle is technically better than any of the alternatives. I said the alternatives have not won the contracts that have allowed them to prove themselves. It's as simple as that.
This. In fact the United States has one of the world's largest oil supplies, Canada also has a large amount. I recall having read once upon a time that it becomes profitable to retrieve this oil at about $125 per barrel (may need to adjust for inflation). Once the average price of oil over time is greater than that threshold it will peg near there for a number of decades.
Until alternatives win those contracts and perform Oracle is still going to be able to say they run the largest and most important databases in the world. Banks, governments, really almost everything of the utmost national and international importance runs Oracle in some fashion on the back-end. Sure, Amazon uses their own proprietary data store for their internet facing site, but all the back-office stuff is Oracle, etc. etc. I like PostgreSQL as much as the next guy and I use it whenever I'm allowed, but it hasn't proven itself the way Oracle has.
I think that credit unions here in the states are generally that way. Bank of America might charge you for using their ATM to get money from your credit union with their ATM but your credit union won't generally charge you. Some credit unions will even pay the ATM fees for you. And yes, Americans are accustomed to getting raked over the coals by corporations at every turn and there is a huge portion of the population that welcomes more of it at any turn.
Are your accounts free? Generally the deal is that your checking account with debit card are *free* and then they get you with fees on everything under the sun.
I think I'm the only Java developer in the world that just doesn't *get* JPA. I mean I understand the argument for it, I understand what it's supposed to do, I've just never experienced a successful project written with it... either by me or any other team. It seems okay during the prototype stage but once it gets into production it seems like invariably there is some issue that occurs deep inside your JPA implementation and the result is pretty much to rewrite the data access layer to use old school connections.
I support the solar power *movement* but this simply isn't true. It costs about $30k for me to replace my current electricity usage. At an average power bill of $150/mo it'll take 200 months or 16.7 years to pay off. That assumes I have $30k lying around I don't need. Now if energy costs triple in 5 years I'll be quite sad that I didn't get that solar system, but even putting that money in a pitiful money market account at the local credit union will offer better returns than the PV system today. And the net carbon usage to mine and manufacture the solar panels still isn't that good.
I have no doubt that within 20 years solar power will become more efficient. Dropping $30k on a solar system today doesn't mean I get those future improvements for free.
My power has tiered pricing where the more I use the more it costs per kw*h. I've done the math and for a few thousand bucks I could put together a solar array that offsets that *more expensive* power and could pay for itself in a hand full of years. Generating enough power to cover the lower priced energy is not cost efficient though. YMMV
I didn't say it would be as simple as a light switch, nor that it'd be extremely cheap. I don't think it should be orders of magnitude more than switching from one conventional hosting provider to another.
If you're not writing your own abstraction layer on top of the proprietary cloud APIs you're doing it wrong. Also some of the cloud solutions (like Google's) use JPA as the interface which should translate nicely for many users to an alternative data store.
That sounds good in theory but that labor we freed up generally moves onto jobs that require less knowledge and have lower wages. That's the retail, restaurant work type jobs. I'm all for improving efficiency, but let's not pretend that when we put middle class workers out of a job via efficiency gains that there's another middle-class job waiting for them.
The main target of most engineering jobs is to increase the efficiency of production. Maybe you make a robot that bolts parts together or a machine that bakes cookies in mass quantities... somewhere down the line you are making a living by putting other people out of work. In fact, the more people you put out of work, the more valuable your work is.
It's an amazing feeling when one of my children (programs) gets released and successfully helps a business/user do whatever it is they wanted to do with that program. I can imagine civil engineers get the same feeling when someone drives across their bridge, and a similar situation for any of the engineering type fields.
More importantly, bringing down that CEO's income doesn't negatively impact their standard of living. The goods and services purchased at the high end like that are priced much more on the availability of money than they are about production costs. Corn, for example, is sold at a very close to the cost of production. Rolex watches are priced at what the market of wealthy people have to pay for those watches. If you tax the ultra high end income workers and/or decrease their wages (assuming you do it to all of them) then the prices of the goods and services they purchase will come down to meet the new level of available funds, you'll see price deflation on high end products. This is basic supply/demand.
The problem with many industries is the McDonald's effect. McDonald's average worker makes very close to minimum wage, but I don't see any particular reason why the top brass of McDonald's shouldn't make similar pay to the top brass at GE, Lockheed Martin, Google, etc. Lower wages weighing down the average wage of the company really makes the CEO multiplier look a lot higher.
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Normal -O2 cl/gcc asm output can be read more easily than most non-obfuscated javascript I've read :P
Because someone who is looking for an expert Javascript developer is going to offer him a job at $200k+.
I taught my 2 year old the chorus and first verse as a lullaby. She obviously doesn't understand a lot of the vocabulary but she can recite it perfectly. I know most people probably don't care, but that song and TMBG is a helpful part of introducing my daughter to the wonderful world of science.
The retarded capitalist in me thinks that these other countries are going to put highly trained people to build and maintain these facilities out of work while simultaneously destroying the market for the radioactive isotopes that are used to generate nuclear power. The wise investor would use this buying opportunity to scoop up those resources at discount prices and increase our nuclear power output. Of course, this is what I like to call "making sense" so nothing of the sort will occur.
You just gave me a great idea for a Chrome/Firefox plug-in. Universal replace. You set up key value pairs.. every instance of [key] on every page you visit will be replaced with [value].
The plural of doe is doe. The plural of Doe is Does. Capitalization matters.
If you are an *expert* in Javascript you can still make big bucks. You generally will have to be willing to move to California or New York though.
Real troubleshooting tools? Oh no sir, not at any big corporation. Those types of "hacking" tools are not allowed to be used on our network by mere mortals.
I dunno, seems like a cake job to me. As a programmer I can assure you that the problem is never the network. Just ask the network guys, they'll be sure to tell you. Never mind the trace-route, pings, and FTP client log showing 100 byte/sec transfer speed I have provided, the single green LED graphic on the monitoring tool indicates with absolute certainty that all things on the network are working swimmingly.
I never argued that Oracle is technically better than any of the alternatives. I said the alternatives have not won the contracts that have allowed them to prove themselves. It's as simple as that.
This. In fact the United States has one of the world's largest oil supplies, Canada also has a large amount. I recall having read once upon a time that it becomes profitable to retrieve this oil at about $125 per barrel (may need to adjust for inflation). Once the average price of oil over time is greater than that threshold it will peg near there for a number of decades.
Until alternatives win those contracts and perform Oracle is still going to be able to say they run the largest and most important databases in the world. Banks, governments, really almost everything of the utmost national and international importance runs Oracle in some fashion on the back-end. Sure, Amazon uses their own proprietary data store for their internet facing site, but all the back-office stuff is Oracle, etc. etc. I like PostgreSQL as much as the next guy and I use it whenever I'm allowed, but it hasn't proven itself the way Oracle has.
I think that credit unions here in the states are generally that way. Bank of America might charge you for using their ATM to get money from your credit union with their ATM but your credit union won't generally charge you. Some credit unions will even pay the ATM fees for you. And yes, Americans are accustomed to getting raked over the coals by corporations at every turn and there is a huge portion of the population that welcomes more of it at any turn.
Are your accounts free? Generally the deal is that your checking account with debit card are *free* and then they get you with fees on everything under the sun.
I think I'm the only Java developer in the world that just doesn't *get* JPA. I mean I understand the argument for it, I understand what it's supposed to do, I've just never experienced a successful project written with it... either by me or any other team. It seems okay during the prototype stage but once it gets into production it seems like invariably there is some issue that occurs deep inside your JPA implementation and the result is pretty much to rewrite the data access layer to use old school connections.
I support the solar power *movement* but this simply isn't true. It costs about $30k for me to replace my current electricity usage. At an average power bill of $150/mo it'll take 200 months or 16.7 years to pay off. That assumes I have $30k lying around I don't need. Now if energy costs triple in 5 years I'll be quite sad that I didn't get that solar system, but even putting that money in a pitiful money market account at the local credit union will offer better returns than the PV system today. And the net carbon usage to mine and manufacture the solar panels still isn't that good.
I have no doubt that within 20 years solar power will become more efficient. Dropping $30k on a solar system today doesn't mean I get those future improvements for free.
My power has tiered pricing where the more I use the more it costs per kw*h. I've done the math and for a few thousand bucks I could put together a solar array that offsets that *more expensive* power and could pay for itself in a hand full of years. Generating enough power to cover the lower priced energy is not cost efficient though. YMMV
I didn't say it would be as simple as a light switch, nor that it'd be extremely cheap. I don't think it should be orders of magnitude more than switching from one conventional hosting provider to another.
If you're not writing your own abstraction layer on top of the proprietary cloud APIs you're doing it wrong. Also some of the cloud solutions (like Google's) use JPA as the interface which should translate nicely for many users to an alternative data store.
That sounds good in theory but that labor we freed up generally moves onto jobs that require less knowledge and have lower wages. That's the retail, restaurant work type jobs. I'm all for improving efficiency, but let's not pretend that when we put middle class workers out of a job via efficiency gains that there's another middle-class job waiting for them.
The main target of most engineering jobs is to increase the efficiency of production. Maybe you make a robot that bolts parts together or a machine that bakes cookies in mass quantities... somewhere down the line you are making a living by putting other people out of work. In fact, the more people you put out of work, the more valuable your work is.
It's an amazing feeling when one of my children (programs) gets released and successfully helps a business/user do whatever it is they wanted to do with that program. I can imagine civil engineers get the same feeling when someone drives across their bridge, and a similar situation for any of the engineering type fields.
More importantly, bringing down that CEO's income doesn't negatively impact their standard of living. The goods and services purchased at the high end like that are priced much more on the availability of money than they are about production costs. Corn, for example, is sold at a very close to the cost of production. Rolex watches are priced at what the market of wealthy people have to pay for those watches. If you tax the ultra high end income workers and/or decrease their wages (assuming you do it to all of them) then the prices of the goods and services they purchase will come down to meet the new level of available funds, you'll see price deflation on high end products. This is basic supply/demand.
The problem with many industries is the McDonald's effect. McDonald's average worker makes very close to minimum wage, but I don't see any particular reason why the top brass of McDonald's shouldn't make similar pay to the top brass at GE, Lockheed Martin, Google, etc. Lower wages weighing down the average wage of the company really makes the CEO multiplier look a lot higher.