The national broadband network is sure to be cancelled by the incoming government next election. It is an overpriced and unnecessary joke - entirely the wrong way of going about things.
I've been here for about a decade and a half and I'm done. I do not come here to read about fucking psychics and lately I get real news in popular press before it hits this site. This place was always a nasty one, full of trolls well entrenched along with worthwhile posters, but the news use to be quality and you could get a decent conversation. Now I'd be better off reading the fucking enquirer. Nice knowing you slashdot, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role.
The only way to enterprise architecture that I know of is to have Ivy league diploma, then you need about 5yr of experience as an analyst while you conspire to get the current architect promoted away while making you and people in your team (but not as good as you evidently) looking good.
Where I am competition is about as cutthroat as for most other management roles. But yes, 1 architect per 30-50 devs is sufficient, so it's quite specialized. I think job security would be the biggest issue for that kind of job...it's hard to fall back to developer because you go stale, and it's hard to find another architect role if you lose your current job.
So... you're saying you've already made the switch from OLTP to OLAP and you'd like to take this opportunity to gloat about it, but you'd still like to hear from other developers what they think the prerequisites are for making such a move and what has held them back from doing all the cool stuff you're doing? Or am I missing the question?
You forgot to mention that he thinks that moving from being a code monkey to a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role. I would have thought his original job would see him better qualified. At best this is a step sideways but in reality it is probably a step backwards....and if he doesn't realise this it's probably just as well for all involved.
But then even slashdot's heyday ask slashdot was about clueless time wasters asking how to do their job or apply for one they weren't qualified for and had no idea about. Now that slashdot is a shadow of it's former self why would we expect the quality of these submissions to improve?
If your your job function does not absolutely require your physical presence in a specific location, then your job is worth exactly what the cheapest person *in the entire world* will do it for.
Yeah do you realise how few jobs do not require a physical presence?
All that needs to happen is to keep existing regulations without continually eroding minimum standards.
Marinate on that, as the hip young kids say.
I'm pretty sure they'd be kicked out of the "hip young club" if they said that.
No other solutions? Guaranteed working conditions are NOT necessary. We can have decent working conditions with much softer approaches than naked and clumsy dictation to employers. Make the environment worker friendly, so that businesses have to compete for workers. How? Well, for one, health care that is not tied to employment.
Well look there. Government regulation DOES come into it. Didn't you just dictate what an employer should or should not be responsible for providing.
So choose from those. Personally I don't run any antivirus as I don't download random executables from the internet nor surf to random porn sites or download from torrent sites. Windows is also secure now a days, and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years.
Speaking as someone who once almost got pwnd drive by style on a well known photography blog and another on a major news site, I can honestly say you've got rocks in your head. Either you don't use your computer much at all for anything interesting (and I'm not talking about porn or warez crap!) or you have been very lucky and are living proof that often being lucky beats being smart.
The software that prevented both attacks was free in each case. Free version of Zonealarm and Microsoft Security Essentials. It was still very disconcerting that a process had been initiated on the computer and then frozen by the respective software.
That there aren't that many women interested in science? He'd have to qualify that.
Certainly my experience. From my observation women just don't tend to get passionate about science. Sorry if that's politically incorrect but everything from science classes, science clubs to the workforce - even when there is a significant (often misguided reverse sexism) attempt to address the imbalance - I see few women who "get it" when it comes to being passionate about science. When they do get interested, I don't think they are at a particular advantage or disadvantage.
Only on price though. Android runs terribly on low end smartphones and don't even have the full feature set of a top of the line android phone. Further, they're likely to be abandonded, perpetually running an outdated version of android until you ditch it. With the iPhone, even buying last gen you're getting most of the features of the top of the line. The WP7 Samsung Flash costs.99 on AT&T and offers the same exact user experince as a top of the line WP7 phone. So why is anyone ever choosing low end android phones? Because 1) the carriers are pushing them since they know they don't have to provide expensive upgradde support and will rope customers in for another contract since the phone will never be updated and 2) there's a lot of buzz around "Android" and people think even the low end phones will deliver the same experience, when what they get is a slow, feature-barren, "smart phone" that was abandonded by the manufacturer the second it shipped.
I have an Acer Liquid Metal, bought outright for $128 (including a sim card and $10 pre-paid credit). It was network locked but updating version of Android unlocked it. It is not the best phone in the world - sound quality is so so compared to "real" phone and I have had issues with the touch screen when the humidity is high. Also no front camera, rear camera quality not brilliant. Memory is also somewhat limited. BUT it has a large screen, storage is enough to run about 120 apps (after moving most to SD). It has accelerometer and magnetometer etc. So I do in fact get a lot of the features of a more expensive phone.
I could spend roughly 10x that on a latest gen iPhone but I would get very little extra for that money, and I'd be locked in to running what Apple says I can. No thanks.
Hell no! If I were making 50k a year I would feel fucking rich and be greatful to work 12 hours a day. In that environment where these poor saps would do anything to take your job to feed your kids you have to suck it up. This isn't 1999 anymore.
Congratulations, you're well on the way to becoming a citizen of the 3rd world. Someone else will be greatful to take 40k a year to work 14 hours a day. Someone else will beat them to the job as 30k to live on site and do 16hr shifts 7 days a week would be a huge step up for them. And someone else will be fine taking 20k to do that work.
This is why guaranteed working conditions are necessary. Without minimums competition doesn't drive wealth, it drives a race to the bottom. Booms are the exception, not the rule.
I think you overestimated the scope of my complaint! I used to make maps for Doom, I collect and restore vintage computers, and I'm a few months away from a bachelor's degree in bioinformatics (in fact, a lecture is going to start in ten minutes.) I was criticizing people for playing games that are particularly cruel to the fingers and wrists because they require rapidly hitting the 'punch' and 'kick' buttons. That's all.:)
Yeah I had a quick look at your web page since your signature says you're a biologist. You clearly have a very good grasp of the tech, but your web page organization leaves something to be desired. I say this not as an insult but because I see you are intelligent and have potential. Still I gave up trying to decipher your page, pretty and cool as it was, it was also hard work, and there are other things vying for my attention.
Getting back to the point: Do you understand any better why a golfer, tennis player or cricket player might risk strain and injury to play their game? How about exploring the unknown like Marie Curie who found radium and her painful cancerous death. People are willing to take risks for fun or suffer for their hobby or art. Have you ever worked late into the night on one of your pet code projects?
I have to say (at the risk that you'll find it sexist) that it's refreshing to see a female geek that's into hardcore coding. I work in industry and there are women who code and do it well, but those who are actually interested in science and computing - those who "get it" and would spend extra time on it are rare. It's not a competence thing. It's an interest and passion thing. Anyway my point is I'm not trying to belittle or criticize you. Such passion is to be treasured and nurtured in either sex. My point is to try to open your eyes to the fact that others are passionate about other things and someone such as yourself should see that a bit of hand strain (which is all that most people will face) is something a lot of people will put up with to have some fun.
pre-flood I would have agreed with you, but the cheapest 1TB drive on newegg is $120. (interestingly the 2TB version of the same model costs only $10 more)
I can't see the page from work, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, you need to date more. Get over it, that's probably never happened in the history of humanity - its just immature fantasy for geeks who have trouble finding a partner.
This is the sort of thing that makes me stare at fighting game players in utter incredulity. How and why would anyone ever put up with such ridiculously tiresome finger movements for so long? It's probably healthier to get into an actual fistfight!
You realise you just opened yourself up to someone offering to beat the living daylights out of you, right?;-)
If you don't enjoy the game, it is unsurprising that you fail to understand the attraction. The focus is not the repedative hand movement, it is the pleasure of playing and achieving things within the game. That is true of any hobby.
I love astronomy. When I show someone who knows nothing about it Jupiter or Saturn through a telescope reactions range from "You spent all that money to see that fuzzy thing" to " Wow! You mean I'm seriously honestly looking at a real planet? No tricks? No joke?". Some love spending time and money on the gear - me? That's a pain in the rear, but totally worth it to get to view and understand our universe 1st hand.
I love photography. I will carry a heavy backpack with expensive cameras, lenses and flashes, batteries and gear to clean it all? I often hang 2 cameras off my neck. Think I enjoy that? It's because when I go out I can get a pin sharp picture of an exotic bird or a butteryfly, or just of my kids running around and playing that's better than a snapshot.
I love computers. Others may love installing software and maintaining hardware but for me it's a means to an end. I find what I can do with my laptop absolutely incredible.
I hate building and maintaining my remote control planes. For others that is the best part of the hobby. For me it is fiddling irritating and boring. But when I get to do aerobatics with an r/c plane I am in hog heaven.
You must have hobbies and passions. Please do not be closed minded about them. Even if playing a video game is not a productive one, there are others that are. I've listed my hobbies. Others have dedicated their lives to curing disease, advancing science and technology, teaching others....many noble things. All would have paid for it in various ways - some even with their lives. Without people willing to sacrifice for their passions and persevere the human race would not be where it is today.
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The national broadband network is sure to be cancelled by the incoming government next election. It is an overpriced and unnecessary joke - entirely the wrong way of going about things.
I've been here for about a decade and a half and I'm done. I do not come here to read about fucking psychics and lately I get real news in popular press before it hits this site. This place was always a nasty one, full of trolls well entrenched along with worthwhile posters, but the news use to be quality and you could get a decent conversation. Now I'd be better off reading the fucking enquirer. Nice knowing you slashdot, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
No one expects the Aqua Buddha!
Nor the Spanish Inquisition, or some I'm told...how appropriate.
FeO is Ferrous Oxide not Iron Monoxide.
More support for my push to rename Hydrogen to Stupidium or Ignoranium. It is the most abundant element after all.
Apparently the group has become self aware!
Nuke from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
This. I'd mod informative if I could.
Slashdot moderation simply hasn't evolved to the point where you can.
No, this is the standard treatment for women in STEM. It's why most of us leave by the time we're 25.
Yeah men treat each other much better. If you are gender bashing, you are part of the problem!!!
a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role.
The only way to enterprise architecture that I know of is to have Ivy league diploma, then you need about 5yr of experience as an analyst while you conspire to get the current architect promoted away while making you and people in your team (but not as good as you evidently) looking good.
Where I am competition is about as cutthroat as for most other management roles. But yes, 1 architect per 30-50 devs is sufficient, so it's quite specialized. I think job security would be the biggest issue for that kind of job...it's hard to fall back to developer because you go stale, and it's hard to find another architect role if you lose your current job.
So... you're saying you've already made the switch from OLTP to OLAP and you'd like to take this opportunity to gloat about it, but you'd still like to hear from other developers what they think the prerequisites are for making such a move and what has held them back from doing all the cool stuff you're doing? Or am I missing the question?
You forgot to mention that he thinks that moving from being a code monkey to a data monkey is suppose to land him an architecture role. I would have thought his original job would see him better qualified. At best this is a step sideways but in reality it is probably a step backwards....and if he doesn't realise this it's probably just as well for all involved.
But then even slashdot's heyday ask slashdot was about clueless time wasters asking how to do their job or apply for one they weren't qualified for and had no idea about. Now that slashdot is a shadow of it's former self why would we expect the quality of these submissions to improve?
The economy is global.
If your your job function does not absolutely require your physical presence in a specific location, then your job is worth exactly what the cheapest person *in the entire world* will do it for.
Yeah do you realise how few jobs do not require a physical presence?
All that needs to happen is to keep existing regulations without continually eroding minimum standards.
Marinate on that, as the hip young kids say.
I'm pretty sure they'd be kicked out of the "hip young club" if they said that.
What we need now is three $40k jobs, not two $60k jobs. Wages aren't a problem. Employment is.
Why not ten $6k jobs. Or twenty $3k jobs?
Dragging the standard of living into the gutter is a false economy. People don't get richer. EVERYONE gets poorer.
No other solutions? Guaranteed working conditions are NOT necessary. We can have decent working conditions with much softer approaches than naked and clumsy dictation to employers. Make the environment worker friendly, so that businesses have to compete for workers. How? Well, for one, health care that is not tied to employment.
Well look there. Government regulation DOES come into it. Didn't you just dictate what an employer should or should not be responsible for providing.
Try again.
So choose from those. Personally I don't run any antivirus as I don't download random executables from the internet nor surf to random porn sites or download from torrent sites. Windows is also secure now a days, and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years.
Speaking as someone who once almost got pwnd drive by style on a well known photography blog and another on a major news site, I can honestly say you've got rocks in your head. Either you don't use your computer much at all for anything interesting (and I'm not talking about porn or warez crap!) or you have been very lucky and are living proof that often being lucky beats being smart.
The software that prevented both attacks was free in each case. Free version of Zonealarm and Microsoft Security Essentials. It was still very disconcerting that a process had been initiated on the computer and then frozen by the respective software.
If you don't like the patent system, reform it by lobbying your government.
Thanks. I needed a laugh.
That there aren't that many women interested in science? He'd have to qualify that.
Certainly my experience. From my observation women just don't tend to get passionate about science. Sorry if that's politically incorrect but everything from science classes, science clubs to the workforce - even when there is a significant (often misguided reverse sexism) attempt to address the imbalance - I see few women who "get it" when it comes to being passionate about science. When they do get interested, I don't think they are at a particular advantage or disadvantage.
Only on price though. Android runs terribly on low end smartphones and don't even have the full feature set of a top of the line android phone. Further, they're likely to be abandonded, perpetually running an outdated version of android until you ditch it. With the iPhone, even buying last gen you're getting most of the features of the top of the line. The WP7 Samsung Flash costs .99 on AT&T and offers the same exact user experince as a top of the line WP7 phone. So why is anyone ever choosing low end android phones? Because 1) the carriers are pushing them since they know they don't have to provide expensive upgradde support and will rope customers in for another contract since the phone will never be updated and 2) there's a lot of buzz around "Android" and people think even the low end phones will deliver the same experience, when what they get is a slow, feature-barren, "smart phone" that was abandonded by the manufacturer the second it shipped.
I have an Acer Liquid Metal, bought outright for $128 (including a sim card and $10 pre-paid credit). It was network locked but updating version of Android unlocked it. It is not the best phone in the world - sound quality is so so compared to "real" phone and I have had issues with the touch screen when the humidity is high. Also no front camera, rear camera quality not brilliant. Memory is also somewhat limited. BUT it has a large screen, storage is enough to run about 120 apps (after moving most to SD). It has accelerometer and magnetometer etc. So I do in fact get a lot of the features of a more expensive phone.
I could spend roughly 10x that on a latest gen iPhone but I would get very little extra for that money, and I'd be locked in to running what Apple says I can. No thanks.
Hell no! If I were making 50k a year I would feel fucking rich and be greatful to work 12 hours a day. In that environment where these poor saps would do anything to take your job to feed your kids you have to suck it up. This isn't 1999 anymore.
Congratulations, you're well on the way to becoming a citizen of the 3rd world. Someone else will be greatful to take 40k a year to work 14 hours a day. Someone else will beat them to the job as 30k to live on site and do 16hr shifts 7 days a week would be a huge step up for them. And someone else will be fine taking 20k to do that work.
This is why guaranteed working conditions are necessary. Without minimums competition doesn't drive wealth, it drives a race to the bottom. Booms are the exception, not the rule.
I think you overestimated the scope of my complaint! I used to make maps for Doom, I collect and restore vintage computers, and I'm a few months away from a bachelor's degree in bioinformatics (in fact, a lecture is going to start in ten minutes.) I was criticizing people for playing games that are particularly cruel to the fingers and wrists because they require rapidly hitting the 'punch' and 'kick' buttons. That's all. :)
Yeah I had a quick look at your web page since your signature says you're a biologist. You clearly have a very good grasp of the tech, but your web page organization leaves something to be desired. I say this not as an insult but because I see you are intelligent and have potential. Still I gave up trying to decipher your page, pretty and cool as it was, it was also hard work, and there are other things vying for my attention.
Getting back to the point: Do you understand any better why a golfer, tennis player or cricket player might risk strain and injury to play their game? How about exploring the unknown like Marie Curie who found radium and her painful cancerous death. People are willing to take risks for fun or suffer for their hobby or art. Have you ever worked late into the night on one of your pet code projects?
I have to say (at the risk that you'll find it sexist) that it's refreshing to see a female geek that's into hardcore coding. I work in industry and there are women who code and do it well, but those who are actually interested in science and computing - those who "get it" and would spend extra time on it are rare. It's not a competence thing. It's an interest and passion thing. Anyway my point is I'm not trying to belittle or criticize you. Such passion is to be treasured and nurtured in either sex. My point is to try to open your eyes to the fact that others are passionate about other things and someone such as yourself should see that a bit of hand strain (which is all that most people will face) is something a lot of people will put up with to have some fun.
pre-flood I would have agreed with you, but the cheapest 1TB drive on newegg is $120. (interestingly the 2TB version of the same model costs only $10 more)
$130/2 = $65. You are quibbling about $15???
I still think the scene from Swordfish (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik ) was way awesomer than anything Social Networking had to offer.
I can't see the page from work, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, you need to date more. Get over it, that's probably never happened in the history of humanity - its just immature fantasy for geeks who have trouble finding a partner.
I have a book. In fact, I have several. And now that I think about it, I also have a face. I'm the owner of all of Facebook.
That's nothing. I also have a face, so I am claiming half ownership. Also I have friends. Honest I do. Therefore I claim ownership of FriendFace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg
Also I've been so cold I have shaken before. Therefore I claim Jitter.
I put my estimate in at 150 billion. What's the prize if I guess the closest?
Please wait approximately 150 billion years while our galactic survey is completed. Meanwhile, you'll have to clear off, we're building a highway.
I put my estimate in at 150 billion. What's the prize if I guess the closest?
Alien invasion!!! Blerg! We come in pieces, shoot to kill! Take me to your ladder!
This is the sort of thing that makes me stare at fighting game players in utter incredulity. How and why would anyone ever put up with such ridiculously tiresome finger movements for so long? It's probably healthier to get into an actual fistfight!
You realise you just opened yourself up to someone offering to beat the living daylights out of you, right? ;-)
If you don't enjoy the game, it is unsurprising that you fail to understand the attraction. The focus is not the repedative hand movement, it is the pleasure of playing and achieving things within the game. That is true of any hobby.
I love astronomy. When I show someone who knows nothing about it Jupiter or Saturn through a telescope reactions range from "You spent all that money to see that fuzzy thing" to " Wow! You mean I'm seriously honestly looking at a real planet? No tricks? No joke?". Some love spending time and money on the gear - me? That's a pain in the rear, but totally worth it to get to view and understand our universe 1st hand.
I love photography. I will carry a heavy backpack with expensive cameras, lenses and flashes, batteries and gear to clean it all? I often hang 2 cameras off my neck. Think I enjoy that? It's because when I go out I can get a pin sharp picture of an exotic bird or a butteryfly, or just of my kids running around and playing that's better than a snapshot.
I love computers. Others may love installing software and maintaining hardware but for me it's a means to an end. I find what I can do with my laptop absolutely incredible.
I hate building and maintaining my remote control planes. For others that is the best part of the hobby. For me it is fiddling irritating and boring. But when I get to do aerobatics with an r/c plane I am in hog heaven.
You must have hobbies and passions. Please do not be closed minded about them. Even if playing a video game is not a productive one, there are others that are. I've listed my hobbies. Others have dedicated their lives to curing disease, advancing science and technology, teaching others....many noble things. All would have paid for it in various ways - some even with their lives. Without people willing to sacrifice for their passions and persevere the human race would not be where it is today.
As others have pointed out, there are 24 one hour chapters, it's not meant to teach you in a 24 hour period.
That's what coffee is for!!!