Comment Re: It is Atom from github (Score 1) 72
It most certainly is a fork
It most certainly is a fork
Just re branded with node.js replaced with a fork and Chromium as a viewer. Never thought I would see MS use Chrome.
But applause as MS is truly adopting to open source
There is. It is called Windows 7 and by the way even that is over half a decade old!
Why is it Microsofts fault that they bought software with IE 6 specific rendering probably purchased 6 or 7 years after IE 6 came out! Poor us we are the victims yada yada.
No sympathy and someone or somebodies need to be fired. Talk about bad management.
Posting AC because, you know... This is going to be unpopular, but It's the trajectory that I see in Tech management in large enterprises.
This isn't shocking. I built my career during the IT and dot-com boom, moved into management, and then into executive positions. I fear this path is no longer available.
Why? Young companies need competent tech workers who can perform, and they need them fast. Once the company scales and competition eats into margins and profitability, they cut cost, that means firing expensive domestic workers and using overseas/contract headcount. Disney is doing the mechanically rational thing for a mature public company.
"Fucking evil management", you say? Well, grow up kiddies. This is what the board, shareholders, and investors demand - increased YoY profitability, which can be achieved, partly, by cutting costs.
This will continue. It will get worse. It's a race to the bottom, so get used to it. The barriers to becoming an IT worker have vanished, and people can work globally. You don't like it? Unionize or advocate trade barriers (which IT will not do), but business will seek the lowest cost option to achieve their business objectives.
Oh, and just wait until AI/automation scales up... My prediction: IT as a profession won't be around in 5 years.
Load of gabage,
A decade ago I believe the scary posts like yours and wife demanded I quit programming as Indians would have these jobs by now. Worse mistake EVER! I would have been rich if I did not major in business. Going back into IT now but man 10 years of experience gone and starting over the past few years sucked.
It is 2015 and we were told by 2010 no IT would exist. Well much of it is coming back as demand is rising due to failed outsourcing attemps and management realizing with IE 6 and XP last year they fucked up by being shoe strung budgets that hampered their basic infrastructures for too long. Programmers today are pulling in $65,000 a year WITH 0 EXPERIENCE!
Perhaps if you could spell dying correctly your skills would be more valued to your employer over an Indian?
Who do you think you are to tell someone else how to run their company?
Let me ask you this? Did you drink Coffee today? Who mows your lawn? Do you eat out at expensive restaurants every lunch? No? Then how are you any different?
You paid someone little wages picking your coffee beans. A Mexican probably mows your lawn. You go to fast food for lunch to save money and pay an immigrant a could portion of the time to spend $7 and not $19 at Chillis etc. Why is this any different? It is tyranny for the government to get involved and if these workers can not compete with a college kid who barely speaks English with no plumbing after years of experience it sounds to me they were overpaid anyway.
With out them we can be replaced by contractors and it's the contract firm that is the one useing the H1B's
Problem with that is you that you would create the Walmart effect. Go Google Walmart closes dozens of stores? Why? Local unions won in 4 states. All of the sudden they mysteriously had to close due to plumbing issues for 4 months at a time in the same areas. Uh how did that happen?
There are so many IT positions available and not enough jobs that unions are not needed. Ask any recruiter and he or she will tell you how hard it is to find someone that can even hold onto a job for more than1 year as everyone is employed. I found the argument BS.
Let's say theoretically you are right? There are not enough jobs. Wages pay about $10 - $15 an hour (since they do not we know IT still has jobs lefts unfilled because of high wages) and we unionize. All of the sudden no IT jobs at all would be here. With telecommunications equipment we would become 100% Indian and would just suffer the productivity losses and business process changes to not pay.
At the end of the day the customer always decides the demand. Not the other way around. In this case the customer is the employer and if he can find a way to find someone just as qualified for cheaper he should be rewarded for this. Are you really saying you do not have the skillsets as someone with no plumbing and language barrier issues who is fresh out of school?? If so the problem is you.
Companies hire Americans because we know more and are right there with better business processes and the employer is willing to pay extra for this. It is capitalism.
Actually I was thinking Edge will still decline due to the icon.
Yes Mom and Grandma will still click on it out of habit, but the millenial generation won't even give it a chance. They will see the E and think of IE 7 at work and go eww and click on Chrome instead etc.
Google already discontinued Chrome for XP didn't they?
Instead of expecting a lot of complaints with Chrome rendering funny since they have an older version I think their computers will die sooner. Capacitors and hard disks only last for so long and after 8 years rapidly start breaking down. It is not like you can install XP on a modern system today anyway. So this means those rapidly dying are from 2008 the last year of Vista.
By next year the 2009 era pcs will start going away in droves and by then Windows 7 would have been the default OS,
Good lord no one should use a OS this old. No do not give me quotes about your mainframes at work as they do not count as an internet enabled device that requires modern programs to be backported to.
Makes job much easier for Web developers to have a more up to date and compliant browser. Grandma and Mom's do not know what a browser and will always click the blue E out of habit because of familiarity even if Chrome is installed
For all the new edge use cases of extra css and js conditional statements needed to display content properly
Dump em!
It is 2015 and 90% of large enterprise have moved off IE 6 or use another browser like Firefox esr in their builds.
Did you know modern IE has compatibility mode! No really most incompetent admins use it now for adding IE 7 sites and later to the intranet zone. This means they can upgrade and emulation runs for older sites.
Banning IE 8 is almost there as you can remind them to install Firefox or Chrome which most should also have. Getting close indeed. It is not 2005 anymore where people have no other browsers
Must be nice.
In my world html5 comes in 2020 when Windows 7 Goes EOL
This would be very profitable. If I were an evil asshole with no ethics I would love to buy or rent such software out and put in a fake virtual player for each session. No way I would ever lose money unless through very odd anomalies. Oh hell who am I kidding this is how half of Las Vegas works where they hire statisticians to favor the house as much as possible.
You are dumb to ever think you can win and are just smarter than the other guys
Pakistan is a very radical Islamic country. Why did they seceed from India when India has millions of muslims? Because it wasn't radical enough. Education is dangerous to the extremists with beards if women started thinking for themselves then how can they have Sharia law?
And low colors. Look at white office 2013, the new Microsoft logo, and of course Windows 8
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
