To be fair, in my case, I did not. I actually received one as a gift last Christmas. I never got around to setting it up (still in packaging). I was planning on trying it out when I had some free time. Now I have a useless device that I can’t even return since I refuse to create a Facebook account.
Considering that the police force were initially created for slave patrols, it’s not really surprising that white supremacy is a part of police culture.
I’ve seen the same thing happen with any language. Generally tends to happen when a dev hasn’t thought through the scope of what they are doing beforehand. I’ve written some ugly python in my earlier days due to this as well.
My point here is it is less to due with the language and more to due with the mindset when solving a problem.
The main issue I see with more inexperienced devs with bash is that they tend to think it’s okay to be lazy with the code because it’s just “bash”. If you would write safety checks and comments in your python you should be doing the same in bash really.
The phrase “a good work ethic” to me describes what you are saying exactly.
I am not passionate about computers, I like solving problems and streamlining the tedious. Personally I don’t have a passion for my company either. I like them, I like what they pay me, and I like the benefits and culture.
I see my paycheck as a business transaction that is favorable to both myself and the company I work for.
With that being said, I do actually enjoy the work I do, but would never use the word passion to describe it.
You didn’t specify how many people they are looking for but if it is multiple people, you could reduce the headcount and double the salary. This makes the pay more competitive and will attract more engineers.
With that being said I’ve always avoided giving real feedback during an exit interview to prevent accidental bridge burning.
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The certificate is only valid for the following names: web2.uconn.edu, phonebook.uconn.edu, testsite.uconn.edu
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Can we please stop trying to force everything to be connected to the internet? I have no issue with those that want to make a smart house, but it seems like it is increasingly more difficult to find certain quality appliances that are not connected, televisions as an example.
I find this whole iot thing very frustrating as a consumer.
I have an ancient programmable thermostat. It allows me to program heating and cooling for the house. It is wired. I do not host my private information on the cloud. I do not have to send wireless data. I do not have to worry about security updates, feature patches, or bugs. It was thoroughly tested under a waterfall development cycle with strict functional requirements.
The consumer market desires cheap, fast, and push button easy solutions. The manufacturers have to comply, and due to technological and financial constraints they opt to open up ports and use fixed default passwords. It's not going to change until the consumer is aware of the risks, and I can't imagine that happening soon. We might see 100m node botnets before that.
They don't have to do shit. They chose it themselves. IoT market is pretty much pure marketing/hype creation. Current solutions don't make any sense, and are pushed to people who don't understand it.
There are deeper problems here though. Current smartphone model doesn't make any sense either, but this is something even many techies are blind about. Like apps, third of which shouldn't exist in the first place, and another third should be OS-level components. Interoperability sucks because everyone is trying to make a lock-in business out of their small part in the solution.
But I'm just a grumpy techie myself. Until the world gets its shit together (i.e. never), I'll continue to build my smart home out of Raspberry Pis and DIY components, while also telling everyone to avoid anything that's done over cloud.
It doesn't desire that in a vacuum, it's been heavily marketed to. Meanwhile there is no marketing to try and extol the value of not connecting your toaster, because of course, that doesn't sell more toasters.
Much like rooting mobile phones to get around restrictions on how you can use them. Problem might be that the IoT market is not as concentrated into two or three products. So you would need to have the know-how to lobotomize across many products.
The ecosystem is going to be huge, so focusing on larger companies, with classical appliance lines (fridge, toaster, TV), that open source their firmware makes sense.
Within a certain product line code gets reused often, so you could work with specific product lines.
Also it really depends on how far you want to go with this and what options the firmware gives you to work with.
I don't get the internet connected part of a lot of the devices. Why not just use Bluetooth to smartphone. And have the smartphone proxy all data to the internet.
wifi gives the device a direct connection to/from the internet. Bluetooth stops that outright, and the application code decides which Bytes get sent to the device.
But i guess if there was a patch to WiFi which gave it a LAN connection only then that'd be cool.
You mean from POV of the smartphone? Fair enough. Though you can route Internet over Bluetooth too. So forcing devices to use BT is not a solution simply because it'll make the devices to ask for Internet connection over BT.
The devices themselves should not need Internet connection, period.
That just shows how bluetooth is flawed and too complicated.
its easier on the customer and developer for there to be a passwordless local protocol.
I think how the wireless Apple headphones pair is how all these iot devices should be paring with your smartphone. Then its a if you are near it you interact with it.
Very, very, few applications really require remote access vs proximity based access.
I don't find bluetooth headphones, speakers and mice to always reliably and robustly connect. Several times a month the solution is to force a re-pairing. An informal poll amongst friends and colleagues shared the same experiences.
When bluetooth works, it works well. But the failures are very difficult to diagnose and address. Those are what the calls will be about and why they will be lengthy.
That's probably what GP is implying, because that's how it works. More and more devices require Internet connectivity for no real reason except ensuring vendor's business.
See e.g. a laser cutter featured once on HN, that offloaded its basic computations to my butt, turning it into $2000-worth big paperweight if you lost your Internet connection.
I mean, I understand that people need to make money, but some of the business models today are so user-hostile that it's no longer funny.
> Are you saying these appliances don't work at all without internet connectivity?
Yep. Can't use my Vizio Smartcast TV without connecting it to the internet for 10 hours of updates. Can't use my Nexus 5 without connecting it to the internet to upload my identity to Google.
