barkingtoad

Well, as long as coders still need to shit, plumbers will still fetch good money.

Almost certainly - other Samsung tablets can be used to make calls.

You are absolutely correct.

A good programmer with zero experience in a platform, is a better hire than an average programmer with 10 years of experience in a platform.

HOWEVER, the job market does not know this AT ALL and ONLY hires on the basis of platform experience.

Actual managers of programmers may understand, but their HR department incompetency filter is ONLY going on the basis of keywords in the resumes.

It's terrible. If you create a resume with the right keywords[1], in the most desirable techs, and put it up on job boards on Monday, you will get hits on Tuesday, even if your prior job title was "Senior Child Rapist" and your previous employer was the Penn State Football Program.[2]

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[1]And they have to match precisely. I was recently told I could not be an Oracle Linux sysadmin, since I only had experience in CENTOS and Red Hat EL. (They are all identical.)

[2]no disrespect PSUers, I just needed a funny example

That's exactly what I'm talking about; we just magically went from "people are trying to target you with ads that are relevant to you" to "the secret police are going to make you disappear."

And that's the connection made when I specifically request an argument that's not slippery slope.

And I'm downvoted for specifically requesting a valid argument. Thank you, HN, or should I say, Reddit Lite.

Explain, and while you do, remember that "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy.

I'm so tired of this.

If you're scared, get a dog.

Or just read the "Why Should You Care" section and really think about it. Is it so bad? Do they have your gramma's name and address and are they sending the Depends cops over to check if she's peed herself? No, they have a bunch of anonymous data that they never attach to you personally.

Everyone's trying to track YOU? NO, that's just some sort of weird narcissist paranoia on your behalf. Nobody is trying to track YOU. Everyone is trying to track EVERYONE. YOUR information is worthless on its own. NO marketer cares about YOU personally and YOUR data is not worth anything negotiable.

If you're scared, get a dog.

How many people use Office to do Office-style work? Most people use 1% of Office's full capabilities.

Blog comments gone?

"And nothing of value was lost."

Tony Shepps - PHILADELPHIA

I do EVERYTHING: web design, web development, system administration, marketing and more.I'm an "extreme generalist" for cheap startups with broad needs.

1985 BSCS, followed by serious systems programming and software engineering

1990 Founded what is today the net's oldest community - see cellar.org

1991 Offered Philly its first Usenet+email access

1992 Converted to sysadmin

1995 Sysadminning on the net

1997 PHP development

2000 Founded first startup, web dev team

2002 Converted that to personal consultancy

2007 Enterprise Linux sysadminning

2010 Designing beautiful, SEO-friendly microsites for small biz

Affordable - honest - good-natured - will not tolerate bad coffee

He meant mental age.

Let's put that concept to bed straight away.

Nobody was protecting the interests of artists before the Internet. Nobody. 0.1% got Ozzy-level rich, 0.9% did OK, the rest of the artists were not even allowed to sell their out-of-print back catalog.

READ THIS

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

If you own the music, you can add it, and it is then available to you inside Spotify.