I totally agree. They are using an very incomplete set of data. Their methods and conclusions appear totally bogus. It's kind of like looking at a house from the outside. They can only see what people do outside of it, and somehow they are extrapolating that to explain what people do inside of it.
Same here. I almost never post publicly on G+. Why? Circles are why. Circles allow me to share my posts with ONLY the people I want.
G+ has a HUGE RPG/Gaming community, which I am quite active in. I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. But - almost none of it is public. This is why I don't put much into the "Google + is dead" stories. On G+, you don't need to post publicly, and very few people do.
My guess is that the people promoting this want one thing: cheap, desperate labor, which these dropouts would become, when the majority of them fail to be successful.
or NBA, or music, etc, etc, etc
The VAST majority of people who skip college will never achieve anywhere near the financial level they could have achieved by going to school. Skipping college and becoming a billionaire is akin to being the lead point scorer in the NBA without ever playing in college. Yes, it happens, to one person out of millions that play basketball.
The company I work for is right smack in the middle of this transition. We had something akin to a SaaS model, before SaaS was a "thing". We have 40+ applications, some are desktop thick net.Net clients, others are web based, all of which interact with one another to varying degrees.
Myself and one other person were instrumental in getting the company to a point where it is possible to release in a semi-automated fashion.
Our challenges were similar to what you described - manual work with lots of process wrapped around it to ensure some modicum of governance, which often failed.
Our number one task was getting our software dependencies under control and automating building. We settled on Maven/Hudson/Nexus as the tools of choice. We have a corporate POM that defines many of our baselines that each of the software projects inherit from. We use Hudson both for automated builds as well as one touch deploys (some are even totally automated) to environments, including production (which is not automatic - it requires a human to initiate).
We then spent over a year "cleaning" our old ant build structures and refactoring into Maven. It cost a lot of money. A whole lot. Maven found numerous cyclical dependencies that Ant hid. We defined all the core libraries, versioned and released them, then built the apps outward from there.
Today, 99% of our software builds are totally automated (a few stragglers of low priority products have not yet been converted to Maven). We have total control of our dependency structure. We have a totally automated release process. We have a totally automated deployment process. It took a lot of work, and a lot of money.
The other side of the coin is our runtime environments. This has been a disaster. The teams that run these systems don't have the concepts of automating anything unless it comes shrinkwrapped form a vendor. Plus there was a management structure in place that encouraged manual work with large numbers of employees. Firefighting was highly rewarded (both in cash and prestige). Eventually, the balance has shifted. The management on this side has either been terminated or left when they saw the writing on the wall. Slowly this side is embracing virtualization and a move toward generic environments whose buildouts are automated. There is a long way left to go here. The goal eventually is that we can automatically provision a VM for a product and deploy to it as we need (think a mini-AMI model).
It is hard. Really hard. A lot of companies won't have the energy to go through with this, and it has a lot of ways to go wrong. We have gone through multiple executive level people during this as well as countless mid-level managers. This type of change is not just technical, itis a massive cultural change for a company.
But today, we have a totally automated process for code release all the way from the developers desktop through to production. Depending on the interactions of a piece of software (if it is an edge or core piece), it can moved daily or monthly. The technology itself can allow multiple production moves a day if people so wanted , but for customer reasons we usually limit this to once a day.
All kinds of people have tried this in the past, almost always in order to control negative information from being published about them. However, the courts have ALWAYS ruled that a person's name is fair use. She (just like the thousands before her), won't get anywhere with this.
Even if a proper name was not fair use, having a trademark does not prevent people from talking about the trademark. At the most, it would prevent someone form using her trademark to infringe on her IP (e.g. counterfeiting).
Basically, she's an idiot.
I was at one of the many suburban festivals around Chicago several years ago, and a teenage girl was wearing a homemade shirt that said "Fuck the Police". At first she was just walking around in front of little kids wearing it, until one of the parents of the kids got a pair of officers and complained. The cops walked over, and this girl stood right in front of them, and the cops told the parent there was nothing they could do. The only things the Mom could do is either move her kids away from this teenager, or deal with the teenager herself. I suppose she could have taken a picture of the teen and gone to the local high schools, see if they knew her, and see if the schools were willing to contact the teen's parents.
This really warrants criminal charges against the school officials who are behind this, not just a civil action. The FBI and local law enforcement should be reading those officials Miranda.
Seriously, if we had soldiers that were 40% stronger, that would be a huge advantage. They could carry more gear, or more powerful weapons, and be considerably more effective than "normal" soldiers. The Air Force already has done trials on drugs that allow pilots to stay awake for days without side effect(a little tangent here - I'm surprised IT departments have not done this yet for Admins and programmers). You have got to think the Army and Marines would be VERY interested in this if it is viable.
Brian Dugan plead guilty to the rape and murder of the little girl, plus was already in prison for two other murders. The guilty plea pretty much means he did it - even with all the DNA evidence found on the girl's clothes that also pointed to him.
The rape and murder he got the death penalty for is not his first - he was already in prison for two other murders. Also, he plead guilty to the rape and murder of this child, so he won't have the same appeals process. He is the poster boy for the death penalty.
Linus can be nominated for he same award Tim Berners-Lee received, the Millennium Technology Prize. However, neither Tim or Linus deserve a Peace Prize.
Nobel Prizes are for basic science research (at least the science ones are). No way Linus is worthy of a Peace Prize. There is already a prize that would fit him though - the Millennium Technology Prize. Although it seems everyone forgot it already, Tim Berners-Lee won this two years ago.
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I totally agree. They are using an very incomplete set of data. Their methods and conclusions appear totally bogus. It's kind of like looking at a house from the outside. They can only see what people do outside of it, and somehow they are extrapolating that to explain what people do inside of it.
I can't agree more!
Same here. I almost never post publicly on G+. Why? Circles are why. Circles allow me to share my posts with ONLY the people I want. G+ has a HUGE RPG/Gaming community, which I am quite active in. I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. But - almost none of it is public. This is why I don't put much into the "Google + is dead" stories. On G+, you don't need to post publicly, and very few people do.
He is a fantastic writer, and one of the best living authors. The award is well deserved
My guess is that the people promoting this want one thing: cheap, desperate labor, which these dropouts would become, when the majority of them fail to be successful.
Yup
or NBA, or music, etc, etc, etc The VAST majority of people who skip college will never achieve anywhere near the financial level they could have achieved by going to school. Skipping college and becoming a billionaire is akin to being the lead point scorer in the NBA without ever playing in college. Yes, it happens, to one person out of millions that play basketball.
The company I work for is right smack in the middle of this transition. We had something akin to a SaaS model, before SaaS was a "thing". We have 40+ applications, some are desktop thick net .Net clients, others are web based, all of which interact with one another to varying degrees.
Myself and one other person were instrumental in getting the company to a point where it is possible to release in a semi-automated fashion.
Our challenges were similar to what you described - manual work with lots of process wrapped around it to ensure some modicum of governance, which often failed.
Our number one task was getting our software dependencies under control and automating building. We settled on Maven/Hudson/Nexus as the tools of choice. We have a corporate POM that defines many of our baselines that each of the software projects inherit from. We use Hudson both for automated builds as well as one touch deploys (some are even totally automated) to environments, including production (which is not automatic - it requires a human to initiate).
We then spent over a year "cleaning" our old ant build structures and refactoring into Maven. It cost a lot of money. A whole lot. Maven found numerous cyclical dependencies that Ant hid. We defined all the core libraries, versioned and released them, then built the apps outward from there.
Today, 99% of our software builds are totally automated (a few stragglers of low priority products have not yet been converted to Maven). We have total control of our dependency structure. We have a totally automated release process. We have a totally automated deployment process. It took a lot of work, and a lot of money.
The other side of the coin is our runtime environments. This has been a disaster. The teams that run these systems don't have the concepts of automating anything unless it comes shrinkwrapped form a vendor. Plus there was a management structure in place that encouraged manual work with large numbers of employees. Firefighting was highly rewarded (both in cash and prestige). Eventually, the balance has shifted. The management on this side has either been terminated or left when they saw the writing on the wall. Slowly this side is embracing virtualization and a move toward generic environments whose buildouts are automated. There is a long way left to go here. The goal eventually is that we can automatically provision a VM for a product and deploy to it as we need (think a mini-AMI model).
It is hard. Really hard. A lot of companies won't have the energy to go through with this, and it has a lot of ways to go wrong. We have gone through multiple executive level people during this as well as countless mid-level managers. This type of change is not just technical, itis a massive cultural change for a company.
But today, we have a totally automated process for code release all the way from the developers desktop through to production. Depending on the interactions of a piece of software (if it is an edge or core piece), it can moved daily or monthly. The technology itself can allow multiple production moves a day if people so wanted , but for customer reasons we usually limit this to once a day.
AMEN!
All kinds of people have tried this in the past, almost always in order to control negative information from being published about them. However, the courts have ALWAYS ruled that a person's name is fair use. She (just like the thousands before her), won't get anywhere with this. Even if a proper name was not fair use, having a trademark does not prevent people from talking about the trademark. At the most, it would prevent someone form using her trademark to infringe on her IP (e.g. counterfeiting). Basically, she's an idiot.
Asimov's Caves of Steel was the first thing I thought of.
I was at one of the many suburban festivals around Chicago several years ago, and a teenage girl was wearing a homemade shirt that said "Fuck the Police". At first she was just walking around in front of little kids wearing it, until one of the parents of the kids got a pair of officers and complained. The cops walked over, and this girl stood right in front of them, and the cops told the parent there was nothing they could do. The only things the Mom could do is either move her kids away from this teenager, or deal with the teenager herself. I suppose she could have taken a picture of the teen and gone to the local high schools, see if they knew her, and see if the schools were willing to contact the teen's parents.
Anyone remember when the far right religious wing started saying that playing D&D turned people into Satanists who then ritually killed people? Same stuff, different decade. Believe it or not, Ann Coulter of all people even called this type of reasoning BS when she said, "Consider the harmless fantasy game, Dungeons and Dragons -- which happens to be played almost exclusively by young males. When murders were committed in the '80s by (1) young men, who were (2) Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts, some people concluded that factor (2), rather than factor (1), led to murderous tendencies."
It's just another study by people with an agenda.
Since they are bred for their skills in magic?
Not sure why I did not think of this. I already have a starter pistol.
too true.
Next fall is going to have some really late nights and brutal AMs at the office. Just one more turn....
This really warrants criminal charges against the school officials who are behind this, not just a civil action. The FBI and local law enforcement should be reading those officials Miranda.
Seriously, if we had soldiers that were 40% stronger, that would be a huge advantage. They could carry more gear, or more powerful weapons, and be considerably more effective than "normal" soldiers. The Air Force already has done trials on drugs that allow pilots to stay awake for days without side effect(a little tangent here - I'm surprised IT departments have not done this yet for Admins and programmers). You have got to think the Army and Marines would be VERY interested in this if it is viable.
Brian Dugan plead guilty to the rape and murder of the little girl, plus was already in prison for two other murders. The guilty plea pretty much means he did it - even with all the DNA evidence found on the girl's clothes that also pointed to him.
The rape and murder he got the death penalty for is not his first - he was already in prison for two other murders. Also, he plead guilty to the rape and murder of this child, so he won't have the same appeals process. He is the poster boy for the death penalty.
Linus can be nominated for he same award Tim Berners-Lee received, the Millennium Technology Prize. However, neither Tim or Linus deserve a Peace Prize.
err 5 years ago, my bad
Nobel Prizes are for basic science research (at least the science ones are). No way Linus is worthy of a Peace Prize. There is already a prize that would fit him though - the Millennium Technology Prize. Although it seems everyone forgot it already, Tim Berners-Lee won this two years ago.
There is already an award for Technology Millennium Technology Prize. Nobel prizes are for basic research, not applied science.