I opened this article expecting some deep knowledge of JVM internals. Turns out that the author just found out that you can name your classes same as any library class. Then you can get amnesia and try to use the library class and woah!
We at our company also tried to develop solutions based on beacons for our customers. The major hindrance to acceptance of beacons is people here almost always switch off bluetooth in their phones. I think phone designers should give 2 different switches for switching bluetooth on/off in the UI. One for traditional bluetooth and another for BLE. That way customers can be pursuaded to keep ble on.
People in India on an average are intolerant and mean. I have spent some time in the US and I was surprised to find that the average person you run into in the world is a nice person. I dont know why it is so in India. May be its because of the population pressure and a bad selection criteria in society. In some situations mean behaviour is the only way how you get things done.
There was a time in India when people with leprosy were left out to die along the streets and no one would come near them. If you had it, your family and the society would ask you to leave the area. I have heard stories from people of my grand fathers generation of how Mother Teresa and her followers (Sisters of charity), would physically carry the lepers and care for them. They really believed in the cause and had a lot of courage. Many of the sisters contracted leprosy doing this. For this they gained enormous respect from people of all religions in Calcutta.
If you have ever seen a leper in India and their condition, you would not have called her sick and twisted.
>But taking away someone's job over a political donation is preposterous and disturbing.
>Eich's forced resignation was an offense against everything America allegedly stands for.
But what if the cause someone donates for, curtails the rights of someone else?
Would you say the same thing if he had donated to a terrorist organisation?
I dont know why you have been downvoted. You have a valid question. If monopoly or oligopoly is the situation all markets gravitate towards if left unchecked by regulation, then these situation are not failures but expected outcomes of capitalism. Why are these outcomes not considered effects of the invisible hand?
That also depends on the population of your country! In India, you are worthless without a degree. People look down on non engineers. Even bachelor of science in computer science is considered crap. Your value as a developers depends only on how many other developers are out there.
But we also do have empirical evidence for the harm from cars. Thats what your parent is saying. The scale of harm is very minuscle when compared to car accidents. Even wars are less deadly than cars when just looking at the numbers. The reason you think intoxicated drivers are exceptions or that accidents are unintended consequences is that, in peoples minds accidents cause less emotions than the image of a poor baby with cockroaches with parents on drugs.
May be I am missing something (I am not in the US). But, do you have to pay rent for the device if you go for the subsidised option? If so, then its not a subsidy. If it is a subsidy, then you are clearly gaining the subsidised amount. The only thing that you are losing is the ability to switch carriers for the contract period. Also, are you not allowed to choose a plan of your choice if you go for a subsidised phone?
I feel what is really wrong with the article is why do people feel the need to get an explanation for the things others do. Do people really stop to ask themselves why they like the things they themselves like. Every time you like something, do you stop to wonder about the evolutionary or genetic reasons behind your feeling good.
>One of the surprising features of Isaacson’s latest book, coming, as it does, after his biography of Steve Jobs—who is generally, though not entirely correctly, understood to be the model of the radical (and congenitally irascible) American —is that it is a paean to cooperation, to the idea of force-multiplication through collective effort and, in particular, to the transformative power of the diamond triangle of industry, academia and government.
I read the article till I encountered this. I guess some people may be able to parse this in one pass. So just wanted to ask: does anyone feel any enjoyment when he/she encounters such a statement?
There are other camps too. Like software consulting firms building software for large enterprises like banks, insurance companies etc. The consequences of breaking things are all written down in very exact legal terms. It is not at all fun when a regression bug shows up.
But don't all countries have laws like that? If you are paid in country x, you have to have a work visa for x and have to pay taxes on it. In some countries, you pay taxes on the money you make abroad as well, even if you don't ever intend to bring the money. For example, on an L visa in US, I was paid salary in my home country and an allowance in US. At home I got taxed on just the salary, but in US I had to pay taxes for the salary I got back home as well.
If you run a bit into the edge of a counter top, with 70 lbs of force, I feel, your phone would not be your top concern. Plus I think, people are mostly worried about the phone deforming in your back pocket if you sit down on it. I am not a physics student, but even if you sit down on, say concrete, I think, your ass needs to have some serious muscle tone, such that a metallic object can get deformed without causing you discomfort.
Oh. The laws of the land! Dont use phrases like that as if they are some sacred scriptures from god. They were put together by a committee. Grow up. Do what is in your best interest and the laws of the land will be forced to change to the best interests of the people.
I guess this list is only for citizens of the privileged countries. Some of my American friends don't even know what a visa is. A citizen of my country can't even transit in London (you will be denied boarding), unless his final destination is US or has a Schenzen B visa. Also an American breaking laws (tax, work etc, not criminal) in a foreign country will face a very different situation than say a third world country citizen.
What if I am a curious, growing, learning organism who wants to just work 9 to 5. Sorry, but I think the people who ask such questions are either lazy who cannot come up with actual questions or are not experienced enough to know a good candidate from a bad one. If you are looking for a specific trait then I feel that you should look around in the people you already know who have that trait first. And then check if the people you are interviewing are similar to the ones you admire. Questions like these and where do you see yourself in 2 years don't really bring out anything in the candidate if you are looking for anybody other than sales guys.
Sorry the logging thing and the configuration thing wasn't my point. What I was trying to say was all the best practices and standard way of doing things are not set in stone and should be evaluated at every instance. Beginners write very inflexible code. When intermediate, they learn best practices and about making it flexible and keeping room for the future. But only after seeing enough projects in production, one will know which flexibilities make sense to the project at hand and which don't.
For example, some changes even though very easy to implement are very difficult to push in production because of requirement of senior management approvals.
Also, best practices depend on the actual environment that you work on. For e.g. In one of the projects, the DBA team had very cool people compared to the server admins who were a pain to deal with even when we had all the approvals. So we decided to keep the configurations in a table and not xml, as changes could be pushed easily!
Why are you assuming that he is writing a library? I have seen people bloat up simple java applications with provision for future requirements which will never happen in the real world.
Reminds me of Apocalypse Now.
Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
I feel, that no amount of manipulation of fundamental rules of logic can help the people you are aghast at. The ones who infer the broken "common sense" logic propositions(a=>b implies b=>a). Also, I know a lot more of non CS people who have excellent analytical skills than the ones with a CS background.
Why are you assuming that the 10 programmers are less skilled than you are. Take this scenario: You(good programmer) write 1 kloc. 10 other (equally good) programmers write 1/10 kloc but each of them is willing to work for less than 1/10 your pay!* Isn't this a possibility in free market? So may be you dont have any intrinsic value. Your value is a function of how many similarly skilled programmers are out there.
Since this applies to all trades, I guess the solution is to move to trades where the supply of "good" labour is less than your current trade. May be that is why the author's friends who moved to management get paid more.
*assume: (communication/coordination overheads) + their pay < your pay