Fair enough, and I have and will continue to not really want to invest time into learning Microsoft's stuff, based on past experiences (my first being wanting to develop for the platform as a scrub, and they charged thousands of dollars for a dev environment/compiler). I honestly don't think it'll serve me well going forward, when there are better alternatives.
They have had decades now to get on board with developers, and cmd.exe is still their go-to console. They still strike me as a company of greedy corporate business folk, who happen to run a software company, as opposed to a software company that has to suffer greedy corporate drones to survive in our current race to the bottom.
I basically do my best yes, whilst having to earn a living in my chosen field. FreeBSD and Linux where I can advocate them.
Part of my current contract is migrating a customer away from SQL Server to Postgres, and it feels good. Automating powershell on aws instances doesn't feel so good, but it's temporary pain.
Pleasantly surprised by powershell? I don't know what to say. I have to essentially copy and paste fragments of things that work, it's so arcane. Its like writing 90's Java on a command line. Its revolting.
Personally, I'll never forgive them for their practices. They deliberately stifled competition, shafted developers, abused their position, and rubbed it in our faces.
There's no coming back from that, and I'll gladly educate newcomers to IT on their ways.
Let them die. The new CEO could be the second coming, you can't fix that cancerous attitude that is entrenched.
They deserve to become obsolete, at the very least.
Perhaps, it just sounded like you thought these very intelligent (for the most part) doctors, were unaware of what they were accepting, which isn't the case.
It's very clear in the industry that it goes on, and anyone that partakes is a scumbag, in full knowledge of what they're doing.
This in an industry that is meant to heal people, not be part of the problem we're facing with rampant corporatism and out of control greed.
They're not falling for anything, its just plain and simple greed. My father was in the radiology area and he constantly received 'bribes' (didn't accept them, but had the offers).
It sucks to watch corruption and violence win the day. We seem to be seeing it. Where an economy can be based on maintaining a military force in other countries, to maintain the petrodollar and central banks. And a lot of good people losing their lives, brought up in the belief, they're helping freedom. What a mindfuck that is.
A good point. It seems to me an increase in people annoying you throughout the flying process is only going to have increased costs, coupled with expensive hardware and presumably billions in software too.
Speaking for Tasmania, there's a desolate looking guy on the Hobart bomb scanner device every time that flags me over. His face says it all, "I know this is a bullshit job, just submit and it will be over with quickly, I collect a paycheck, you feel bad for a little while."
I'd do it if I have cause to fly into the States again, but I can't help but think its not really going to help much. From my youthful experiences at being a knob, I'd say don't piss off food makers/deliverers, or airline staff. I once annoyed a Qantas security lady, and I noticed it for a fair few trips afterwards. Then again, with wealthy interests controlling the US, I can't really see what will help at this stage. Its a descent into corruption and mess, but I can't judge how quickly it'll crumble.
Definitely a way to find a silver lining hehe. Maybe we're getting better at shining a light on things, and they'll crawl back into the slime over a generation or two.
Well, all of the Five Eyes are complicit, no argument there. Certainly a top-heavy weighting from the US though, with basically control of the net, and a stellar budget. The peons just follow the marching orders.
Any time I read this type of article, I keep recalling what irritated the hell out of me with the Snowden leaks and responses of US citizens. To paraphrase: "It's terrible they're spying on US citizens (but everyone else is fair game, geez, whack a splicer in that fibre channel asap)".
The US has reinvented the concept of borderlines on the Internet with what the NSA/TLAs have been up to. I'd say that's a distinct step backwards.
Seems to still be a lot being done in the name of security theater in the US, and just wasting dollars on the TSA, for what appears to be very little effect.
Who's really profiting there? Is it just for the employment of people that otherwise wouldn't have a job? Or are the majority of citizens there really made to feel more secure by having them? I'd have to say some defense contractor is getting a bit fatter off this.
> Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters.
Cracked me up, very well said. In general I agree that the document-centric browser has been abused horribly. Then we get obscene beasts like node.js, because, well, the browser does it, so must we.
There's createdb from memory (?), but for other bits and pieces, it might be worth spending a bit of time on a thin wrapper script e.g. "create-pg-user foo" that just wraps the annoying parts, but using your environment specific bits and pieces if needed, or using a C/Python/Ruby/Java/etc api. At a bit of a different level maybe some Ansible playbooks that hide away the psql level stuff, so they can be reused.
I fully agree though and in thinking about it, a range of CLI level tools would be nice. I guess then the team would have to play catch up with any syntax/api changes for those tools too, so its adding that annoying extra bit (albeit fairly small probably). But I guess its the annoying extra bit getting down in one place, and not hand-crafted by everyone.
I think the problem is, its a bit more complicated than that.
There are a myriad of factors that might influence that IQ score, and I haven't looked at the studies. Lack of wealth/opportunity I think is definitely a factor in the healthy development of the grey matter, as is access to good education.
Long/short, not sure. I'd be surprised if the colour of your skin objectively made a difference in IQ. Same with gender. Though, if the latter is true, I would probably use it with great exuberance on certain people I know e.g. my ex.
True. As a consumer, I'd have to subscribe to three+ different providers, all charging a monthly cost, to get at everything now. Or more specifically, just the things I want to watch.
The 'old' Foxtel model was similar; you want to watch a few things? Well, you'll have to buy all the channels for $100+ per month just to see the bits you want.
It doesn't seem like a sensible situation for the people that want to sell content. Seems very sensible for the people that want to control the content though, in terms of making out like gangbusters.
They have had decades now to get on board with developers, and cmd.exe is still their go-to console. They still strike me as a company of greedy corporate business folk, who happen to run a software company, as opposed to a software company that has to suffer greedy corporate drones to survive in our current race to the bottom.