You probably can't. The issue is finding talent that can do the job that is required. It's not that there aren't competent engineers in other states, it's just that engineers that are competent at the specific needs of something like Facebook are very, very hard to find.
For example, Windows Mobile 6 -> Windows Phone 7 -> Windows Phone 8. Is there any phone that you can run the same mobile software on all three Windows phone platforms? No. Each OS version requires new versions and adherence to new standards and APIs. A WP8 app will not run on a WM6 machine.
And that, my friends, was the fatal flaw in the Windows Ecosystem.
I understood the change from 6 to 7. WinMo 6 was just awful. But the jump from 7 to 8 was a deal breaker for devs, myself included.
Trust was betrayed.
AFTER pushing Windows Phone 7 as the "new, next big thing" with the weight of Microsoft behind it, it was then immediately followed, AT THE NEXT MAJOR RELEASE, with a "new - new next big thing" that completely trashed any investment in WP7.
Sorry, that's psychotic behavior, I'm not down for that.
you should point any users who complain to you back to their browser developers' bug report page, and go have coffee
HA HA HA! Tell that to your boss who couldn't give 1 rat's sh17 about standards or social good or anything other than it doesn't work in Edge and 19% of the users use Edge.
Let supply and demand function without interference in order to establish a market level price.
In order to let supply and demand function, supply has to function. And that's really a problem in big cities like New York with lots of "quality of life" regulations that make it difficult to create new housing. San Francisco faces this problem, Washington, DC faces this problem. So perhaps it's no surprise that these three cities are the most expensive cities in the United States to live in?
You could, of course, take it as a clear sign that those "quality of life" regulations are working.
I don't believe that all speech is equal. In particular, any form of paid speech is, by definition, subject to forces that extend well beyond the focus, intent, and nature of the speech itself.
Personally, I don't believe that freedom of speech protections should apply to any form of advertisement or paid political announcements. Any entity endorsed or sponsored by any other entity should not, IMHO, be under freedom of speech protections regards any speech involving the sponsor or original source of funding.
I work for Hapco. Therefore, any speech I make regards Hapco should be subject to reduced protections, IMHO.
As a developer myself, I watched the clusterfu#! of Microsoft launching, then dropping, platform after platform... And every time they did that, I thanked myself for not investing in the previous platform!
Want to guess how much that made me want to invest in their next platform?
At my company, we use Enterprise Edition OS (CentOS or RHEL) specifically because of the long, long term support. Think: a decade.
For our product, we used RHEL 4 for its entire duration, and then jumped to EL 6, where we are now. We will probably not use EL 7 but go to EL 8 if it's available at or before the EL 6 EOL.
Personally, I'm a fan of having a default password be something intrinsic and unique to that specific device, such as a wifi router with the default password being both fairly strong and printed on the bottom.
I *know* that there are plenty of places in our software that I could spend an hour or two, and rewrite an algorithm to run in 1/5th the time. And I don't care at all, because the cost is too low to measure, and usually, performance bottlenecks are elsewhere.
Who really cares if I can get a loop to run in 800ns instead of 1500ns, when the real bottleneck is a complex SQL query 11 lines up that joins 11 tables together and takes 3 full seconds to run?
I'm an employer. I've interviewed nearly everybody we employ at my company. And treating a hiring interview like a rote memory exam is a terrible way to qualify a potential developer hire!
What do programmers actually do? Try testing that!
We do "whiteboard style" for part of our interviews, but only to cover basic comprehension of algorithms. More than anything, we look for basic familiarity with logic structure, and the demonstrated ability to solve problems. Our coding section of our interview process is in the subject's language of choice, including pseudo code, and is "open book" - we want to see what happens when the dev runs into a problem they don't already know! (Critical test: can they come up with a working, supportable algorithm for a problem they don't yet already know an answer for?)
After 20 years of programming experience, I STILL routinely look up the order of arguments for function calls via Google. Who cares to remember when Google has the answer in 0.10 seconds?
Test what the devs will actually DO in an anticipated normal work day and make your decisions based on that.
I think your facts need updating. As a Verizon customer, I can use data during calls and have been able to do so for years. It's true that you can't use data during a voice call if you're on a 3G tower, but the only place I see those anymore is while at government offices.
The whole Dark Matter thing was based on the presumption that there is NO WAY that WE can't see it.
Not at all. The whole dark matter thing was based on the presumption that there is mass that we can't see and this matter that we can't see was called "dark matter".
Others may have read more into it, but the name itself betrays the real, original intent behind describing this matter that we can't see or identify.
A browser cell phone doesn't need to be a calculator, a word processor, a typing instructor, a device manager, etc.
A browser/cell phone/Desktop Environment/etc doesn't need to be anything but what people want it to be. I want my cell phone to be a calculator, word processor, typing instructor, etc. And I'm perfectly happy with my browser extensions that share screens and do other stuff that is useful.
Describing them as "death traps" is hardly fair. In truth, they are approximately as safe as driving a car. A certificated aircraft flying in VFR conditions has a death rate per hour of flight a little less than twice the death rate per hour of driving a car, and a death rate per mile of flight slightly better a car. This makes sense; they go significantly faster than a car.
And that compares a fleet of aircraft with an average age of 30 years or more, to cars with an average age of perhaps 5 years. And even on newer aircraft, very little has been changed in the last 30 years except perhaps instrumentation.
Windows 10 wrests control away from the user in ways that are unacceptable. I cannot compromise on these things. I will not use Windows 10.
I wonder how many people reading this have no qualms about using an Android phone with "Google Now" that do essentially all of these "telemetry" things and much more.
Odd, but I see no sign that this is true. PC Ports of console games typically require far more "firepower" than would be implied by the original console. Case in point: GTA IV/V.
FYI It's normal and customary for companies or individuals who are compelled to perform a significant task to be paid for their time and effort. I had an employer once get subpoena'd in a law suit and I was the admin and the compelling party (a private party) had to pay for the administrative cost for me to do a data recovery from a backup.
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If be very curious about your evidence to support the conclusion that the left is trying to filter your communication.
it probably looked something like this - a video of a windmill shattering in North Europe after its break fail
You probably can't. The issue is finding talent that can do the job that is required. It's not that there aren't competent engineers in other states, it's just that engineers that are competent at the specific needs of something like Facebook are very, very hard to find.
For example, Windows Mobile 6 -> Windows Phone 7 -> Windows Phone 8. Is there any phone that you can run the same mobile software on all three Windows phone platforms? No. Each OS version requires new versions and adherence to new standards and APIs. A WP8 app will not run on a WM6 machine.
And that, my friends, was the fatal flaw in the Windows Ecosystem.
I understood the change from 6 to 7. WinMo 6 was just awful. But the jump from 7 to 8 was a deal breaker for devs, myself included.
Trust was betrayed.
AFTER pushing Windows Phone 7 as the "new, next big thing" with the weight of Microsoft behind it, it was then immediately followed, AT THE NEXT MAJOR RELEASE, with a "new - new next big thing" that completely trashed any investment in WP7.
Sorry, that's psychotic behavior, I'm not down for that.
you should point any users who complain to you back to their browser developers' bug report page, and go have coffee
HA HA HA! Tell that to your boss who couldn't give 1 rat's sh17 about standards or social good or anything other than it doesn't work in Edge and 19% of the users use Edge.
Who pays for your coffee?
Let supply and demand function without interference in order to establish a market level price.
In order to let supply and demand function, supply has to function. And that's really a problem in big cities like New York with lots of "quality of life" regulations that make it difficult to create new housing. San Francisco faces this problem, Washington, DC faces this problem. So perhaps it's no surprise that these three cities are the most expensive cities in the United States to live in?
You could, of course, take it as a clear sign that those "quality of life" regulations are working.
LOL!
> Linux is more efficient as a server
Doing what, exactly? This is like saying that Volkswagen is more efficient as a vehicle.
> Windows server is most commonly used at the low end of the market
Bwha ha ha ha!! ha ha! Your $35 router and DHCP server runs Linux, which dominates this end of the market. See above.
I don't believe that all speech is equal. In particular, any form of paid speech is, by definition, subject to forces that extend well beyond the focus, intent, and nature of the speech itself.
Personally, I don't believe that freedom of speech protections should apply to any form of advertisement or paid political announcements. Any entity endorsed or sponsored by any other entity should not, IMHO, be under freedom of speech protections regards any speech involving the sponsor or original source of funding.
I work for Hapco. Therefore, any speech I make regards Hapco should be subject to reduced protections, IMHO.
As a developer myself, I watched the clusterfu#! of Microsoft launching, then dropping, platform after platform... And every time they did that, I thanked myself for not investing in the previous platform!
Want to guess how much that made me want to invest in their next platform?
It's easy to suspect and hypothesize. It's quite another thing to prove it.
At my company, we use Enterprise Edition OS (CentOS or RHEL) specifically because of the long, long term support. Think: a decade.
For our product, we used RHEL 4 for its entire duration, and then jumped to EL 6, where we are now. We will probably not use EL 7 but go to EL 8 if it's available at or before the EL 6 EOL.
Personally, I'm a fan of having a default password be something intrinsic and unique to that specific device, such as
a wifi router with the default password being both fairly strong and printed on the bottom.
What the Internet is, was, and is supposed to be was laid out a long time ago and in a very non-ambiguous way and it's worked famously for a long, long, LONG time.
It's wonderfully working as it was supposed to do.
I came here to say this, mostly.
I *know* that there are plenty of places in our software that I could spend an hour or two, and rewrite an algorithm to run in 1/5th the time. And I don't care at all, because the cost is too low to measure, and usually, performance bottlenecks are elsewhere.
Who really cares if I can get a loop to run in 800ns instead of 1500ns, when the real bottleneck is a complex SQL query 11 lines up that joins 11 tables together and takes 3 full seconds to run?
I'm an employer. I've interviewed nearly everybody we employ at my company. And treating a hiring interview like a rote memory exam is a terrible way to qualify a potential developer hire!
What do programmers actually do? Try testing that!
We do "whiteboard style" for part of our interviews, but only to cover basic comprehension of algorithms. More than anything, we look for basic familiarity with logic structure, and the demonstrated ability to solve problems. Our coding section of our interview process is in the subject's language of choice, including pseudo code, and is "open book" - we want to see what happens when the dev runs into a problem they don't already know! (Critical test: can they come up with a working, supportable algorithm for a problem they don't yet already know an answer for?)
After 20 years of programming experience, I STILL routinely look up the order of arguments for function calls via Google. Who cares to remember when Google has the answer in 0.10 seconds?
Test what the devs will actually DO in an anticipated normal work day and make your decisions based on that.
I think your facts need updating. As a Verizon customer, I can use data during calls and have been able to do so for years. It's true that you can't use data during a voice call if you're on a 3G tower, but the only place I see those anymore is while at government offices.
The whole Dark Matter thing was based on the presumption that there is NO WAY that WE can't see it.
Not at all. The whole dark matter thing was based on the presumption that there is mass that we can't see and this matter that we can't see was called "dark matter".
Others may have read more into it, but the name itself betrays the real, original intent behind describing this matter that we can't see or identify.
A browser cell phone doesn't need to be a calculator, a word processor, a typing instructor, a device manager, etc.
A browser/cell phone/Desktop Environment/etc doesn't need to be anything but what people want it to be. I want my cell phone to be a calculator, word processor, typing instructor, etc. And I'm perfectly happy with my browser extensions that share screens and do other stuff that is useful.
People don't buy minimalism, they buy features.
Describing them as "death traps" is hardly fair. In truth, they are approximately as safe as driving a car. A certificated aircraft flying in VFR conditions has a death rate per hour of flight a little less than twice the death rate per hour of driving a car, and a death rate per mile of flight slightly better a car. This makes sense; they go significantly faster than a car.
And that compares a fleet of aircraft with an average age of 30 years or more, to cars with an average age of perhaps 5 years. And even on newer aircraft, very little has been changed in the last 30 years except perhaps instrumentation.
Flying cars you say? Oh, yeah, of course we don't have those! What a silly idea!
Because nobody is doing flying cars. And, nobody else is, either.
Windows 10 wrests control away from the user in ways that are unacceptable. I cannot compromise on these things. I will not use Windows 10.
I wonder how many people reading this have no qualms about using an Android phone with "Google Now" that do essentially all of these "telemetry" things and much more.
LOL, came here to say this. Isn't it nice to be "on the spectrum" ?
If you value reliability, you want ZFS and RAIDZ.
Odd, but I see no sign that this is true. PC Ports of console games typically require far more "firepower" than would be implied by the original console. Case in point: GTA IV/V.
...at Apple's expense.
FYI It's normal and customary for companies or individuals who are compelled to perform a significant task to be paid for their time and effort. I had an employer once get subpoena'd in a law suit and I was the admin and the compelling party (a private party) had to pay for the administrative cost for me to do a data recovery from a backup.