If they can't figure out how to store that data they shouldn't be on the road. You're telling me it's a data storage / transmission problem that their best engineers can't solve, yet we're supposed to trust their machine learning system? Tons of companies are working on this and plenty seem to have figured out even bigger big data issues already.
Almost every software tool decision I make is one of garbage quality with features vs ok quality with no features. I can choose a text editor that does the basics but nothing else I need or an ide that does everything poorly. From browsers to package managers to debuggers to operations tools, the quality of software tools is absolutely atrocious. Why master any of this garbage when more garbage tools will be required later? It's hard to stay sane just using them. Yes, non software tools like reading and writing comprehension are useful, but for the most part, investing heavily in a tool that's bound to fail over and over again seems like a terrible idea. Then again, there simply isn't enough time to write proper versions of these tools. But amazing things have been built with much less tooling than we use today which leads me to think that the proliferation of software tools partly exists only to make the tool developers happy as they create useless rube Goldberg machines (especially in js land).
Justice is whatever the 'justice' systems says it is. Citizens have no recourse. The 'justice' system has no checks or balances that can be accessed, except by the rich. There are no penalties for abuse or misuse, even when uncovered.
Yeah, that's exactly what I think of when I think of the concept of 'justice'. One day some people might create a just society, but it almost certainly won't be in the US.
I couldn't agree more. All the 'let's listen to the other side' comments are sickening. No one with a brain wants to listen to the other side spew their racist, sexist, hateful beliefs. I think people that suggest that are so stupid, they are part of the problem and are encouraging hate in the name of 'tolerance'. Some people and actions should never be tolerated. I hope the people that do tolerate such hate and stupidity realize that they are not only not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.
Couldn't agree more. If you have a monolith, you can probably get away doing dev ops as long as you don't grow too much. We have a handful of microservices and trying to keep up with the ops work has been hell, though part of that is due to AWS's tools. And this is without even a growing user base, just a growing app base. Burn out is definitely a problem in either case.
The main lesson here is to leave a company that doesn't pay you immediately. The rest of the lesson is only for the idiots who didn't do that like the author.
Why don't the people you refer to get an actual education and make themselves employable rather than sitting around and waiting for jobs to fall in their laps simply because they're white Americans who feel entitled to work? That time in America is long gone. Maybe then they'll be able to have an actual educated conversation rather than spewing out hate and stupidity. Yet the highest level of achievement most of these idiots aspire to is a GED or High School diploma. They simply don't realize that if you only have one of those in America you are extremely stupid and you will be extremely poor, yet that is exactly what they voted for in this election and elections prior. Then they complain that their stupidity leads to a shitty life and blame it on 'the other side' because they are too feeble minded to actually understand any issues. Having an intelligent conversation with such people is impossible.
Actually, I think this is much more the key: "I never would have begun my own conversations without first experiencing clear and passionate outrage to what I believed from those I interacted with."
Outrage is the only reasonable first response to what happened and must come first. If that opens the doors of discussion like it did here, great. Most likely it won't as most people are not persuaded by argument, though they are susceptible to manipulation by sympathy.
When those people choose hate over everything else, however, they deserve to be ostracized and relentlessly attacked. Hate is NOT acceptable. I'm disgusted by those who suggest otherwise, especially in the name of "understanding" the other side. It not only shows an incredible lack of understanding about the human condition, it encourages the acceptance of that hate as a legitimate part of the political process, and brings into question the morals of the person making the suggestion to acquiesce to hate.
"Also Freedom 0 is just silly I mean of course I can use the program as I wish."
Tell that to people spending time in jail for using a program in a way that was frowned upon by government. Clearly the author hasn't spent much time thinking about these topics.
So they listened to developers demands from four years ago and didn't think to upgrade the specs to what would be needed now in 2016 but left them at 2012 levels? They must have a different definition of "listened" than the rest of the world.
I don't think you realize the people gave up power generations ago. It doesn't matter what the people want now or even if they want or do not want to give up power. The power was given up to the government when it was formed and forever it will stay there until the government is destroyed by violence. We've seen this over and over again and know this to be the state of things. I don't understand what pretending the people have any power left gets you. The only power the people still seem to have is the power to vote (not very powerful, IMO) and of referendums and other state initiatives. These are the powers that were given to the people in exchange for people giving up the rest of their powers (except as otherwise legislated). If you want to talk about people regaining or not giving up power, you are necessarily talking about violence and rebellion on the scale of a civil war. I don't think anyone wants either of those and even for people that do, it's likely unwise to talk about it on the Internet.
As far as free speech, the original topic of this post, IMO, it doesn't exist when people are afraid to speak out and right now, many people are terrified to silence.