So true. The chief of the city's plumber's apprenticeship program is taking 40+ year old apprentices. They're the only ones who are both interested and will stay. City road repair schedule is designed around keeping the existing work force employed at full wages for as much of the year as possible. Skilled people are scarce.
Well said. Skilled people will just pick up and leave if they have the skills and enough youthful energy to establish themselves somewhere more congenial. Cheapskate micromanaging assholes are apparently unteachable.
I really miss the days of plain websites, before AJAX.
Before all th "aesthetics" nonsense everywhere.
When Jakob Nielsen's Usability website still recommended that all hyperlinks must be underlined to help users avoid fraud. Also, in another color. (Is that guy still alive? He must be like 120 in octal)
The days before the utter evil that was the Java virtual machine, by Sun Corp. a company that didn't kill itself.
Ah, the days of perl scripts everywhere, and the super crappy early versions of php. The days when we were naïve and thought that ms access was an actual database.
The simple days before video, when floppy disks could only hold ten (10) hot pictures in low res.
Those days when you could easily access memory and poke around videogames and have lots of fun crashing DOS games on a dull window of windows '98, that would BSOD every five minutes because of a bad update on the drivers of the graphic card, but you could actually downgrade the drivers or use a cheaper card that didn't crash.
Normies should have never entered the internet. It was too dangerous. We knew it back then it was too dangerous, and still... never mind...
I made websites back when you had to write the HTML in a text editor. Today's websites with stuff popping up in your face all the time…well, I'm just glad I'm so old.
So true. The chief of the city's plumber's apprenticeship program is taking 40+ year old apprentices. They're the only ones who are both interested and will stay. City road repair schedule is designed around keeping the existing work force employed at full wages for as much of the year as possible. Skilled people are scarce.
And skilled people are also usually harrassed by management until they quit, because they don't want to pay them what they're worth.
Well said. Skilled people will just pick up and leave if they have the skills and enough youthful energy to establish themselves somewhere more congenial. Cheapskate micromanaging assholes are apparently unteachable.
"Cheapskate micromanaging assholes are apparently unteachable."
They don't care. They are rewarded by upper management with promotions and HUGE raises if they can get rid of enough people.
I really miss the days of plain websites, before AJAX.
Before all th "aesthetics" nonsense everywhere.
When Jakob Nielsen's Usability website still recommended that all hyperlinks must be underlined to help users avoid fraud. Also, in another color. (Is that guy still alive? He must be like 120 in octal)
The days before the utter evil that was the Java virtual machine, by Sun Corp. a company that didn't kill itself.
Ah, the days of perl scripts everywhere, and the super crappy early versions of php. The days when we were naïve and thought that ms access was an actual database.
The simple days before video, when floppy disks could only hold ten (10) hot pictures in low res.
Those days when you could easily access memory and poke around videogames and have lots of fun crashing DOS games on a dull window of windows '98, that would BSOD every five minutes because of a bad update on the drivers of the graphic card, but you could actually downgrade the drivers or use a cheaper card that didn't crash.
Normies should have never entered the internet. It was too dangerous. We knew it back then it was too dangerous, and still... never mind...
I made websites back when you had to write the HTML in a text editor. Today's websites with stuff popping up in your face all the time…well, I'm just glad I'm so old.
me too! lol!
You have no idea how right you are rat. 🐀
Btw your cousins account for more “cyberattacks” than all the hackers put together.
Rats knaw on cables = internet or power outage .
That’s why cats are best.
Sorry rat.
Absolutely right. I work for a small city and fixing things is essential
The patience needed for a puzzle is talent , not AI.