I don't want to live anywhere where I can see my neighbor. These people are choosing this lifestyle. These same people are a massive tax on society because we have to subsidize this lifestyle because it's very expensive to provide services to places where nobody lives. Why would you build a hospital where only 10,000 live? Why spend $5000 to drag fibre to someone's house so that they can pay $50/month for internet access? How can you afford to pave a road where one person has 800ft of frontage and pays $1500 a year in SALT?
Again, at the end of day this is a choice and their choice costs everyone. I can't really feel sorry for these people, it's what you get when you want to go it alone.
Yes, his first sentence is incongruent with the rest. I think he meant to add quotes around it, as it's a stereotypical thing that rural dwellers would say. The rest is an accurate argument, complete with dollar amounts, about why their lifestyle is unsustainable and needs subsidization to continue.
We need places where nobody lives to produce things. You cannot farm acres of land where everybody lives, it has to be done where nobody lives. You can’t raise cattle where people live because the cattle has to live there.
I suppose the converse view is that city dwellers are externalizing the cost of their existence and so we should see huge increases in prices for staple goods until rural dwellers are paid appropriately and we have equitable outcomes with respect to mortality between rural and urban populations.
Oh please, not this dumb argument again. Have you actually ever visited or lived in rural American areas? These people are not farmers. Building a road to a farm is fine, but there's a huge network of roads out there just to service non-farmers who choose to live rural lifestyles and expect everyone else to subsidize this lifestyle for them.
My parents were college professors, English teachers, and two things they kept pounding into my head all my life was to one, learn to write a sentence and two, college is not there to teach you a trade it's there to expand your mind. I think it's unfortunate that companies feel that they no longer have to invest in their employees and teach them the job, they have pushed this off on the employees. Sadly, people think college will teach them a job and except for a few degrees Medicine, Law, Engineering it doesn't.
Yep, I moved from Dev to ops many years ago simply because I wanted to talk to someone..anyone. I've been in consulting for the last 20 years and I talk to customers good or bad almost every day and I do get a kick out of it when they are stoked with my work. The funny thing is as I'm getting older and working with more complex and closer to alpha products I find myself writing code to make my life easier, funny how that works. As far as the industry as a whole, I wouldn't recommend it to my kid I think it's dying or at least dying in the US.
you get what you pay for, these companies have been racing to the bottom for years, trying to save that extra penny because IT is considered a cost center and always has been. In addition moving to the cloud is just a way to shrug off responsibility, it's not our fault it's AWS.....actually it is your fault because you were trying trying to save money and you handed off your business to the lowest priced contractor and now are surprised that the contractor doesn't care about your business nearly as much as you do.
I have pretty much the same story, started with a Vic20 (without storage), got the 4K expansion cartridge when my programs stated to exceed the builtin 3.5k, moved on to the Apple 2 and the Commodore 64 and then on to PCs. Mostly learning in basic and then I was doing a lot of dBase in the mid to late 80's, learned C & Fortran in HS and then I learned C, Fortran, PAscal and Assembler in college. The on to VB, C++ and then I pretty much stopped programming for profit in 1999 and moved into operations. In about 2015 I started coding in Python, life is so different when you have Google, stackoverflow and a module that does pretty much anything you want -why didn't this stuff exist why back when.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one! I got paid as a kid doing dBase II on Xerox CP/M then III/IV on Olivetti PC too. Before I saw NeXTSTEP, Visual Basic 1.0 was amazing. I was lucky enough to get paid to make a similar GUI builder for OS/2 and NT. Coding for work was pretty straight forward, except for the occasional multithreaded work. It wasn't until seeing completely different languages like SmallTalk, Lisp, or OCaml that it got exciting again. Perl for me was just, why? I briefly saw Python used by some ops folks on QNX but I didn't venture into the whitespace is significant territory to see its goodness until much much later.
One of the best classes I took in college was a "learn how to study class", I never had to study before college so I was woefully unprepared for engineering school. Probably the best thing I learned in the class was the Cornell Note Taking Method. I implemented the method the next semester of college and totally crushed it with limited studying, I probably should have continued using it but I was a knucklehead and didn't.
I glanced at it and it reminds me of my grandmother's system. She was born in 1918 and went to college in her mid-30s. Very bright.
Anyway, she took her lecture notes in shorthand. Shorthand is very fast, so she took down every word. She would go home and transcribe those by hand to regular English. Then she would type it out on her typewriter for a final copy.
She said by the time she did all that, she was done studying.
I use them in my home lab. The company is too cheap to provide me with a real lab but $1000, ebay and some creativity I can pretty much do whatever I need to do on my own.
They used to give whoever was on call for the week $200, we had a guy saving up for his wedding so he offered to be on-call for anyone who didn't want to be on call. It was a good deal for him and everybody was happy. It's amazing how cheap companies are today, for $10K you could make a lot of people happy.
before my promotion it was 0-3% and now it's 0-10%, after a decade of 2% (or less) bonuses I almost choked last year when I got 10%. This year I'd be thrilled with 5%.
Again, at the end of day this is a choice and their choice costs everyone. I can't really feel sorry for these people, it's what you get when you want to go it alone.