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Comment: Re:Not new (Score 3, Interesting) 252

by AuMatar (#47412597) Attached to: US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger)


Comment: Re:Not new (Score 4, Informative) 252

by AuMatar (#47411501) Attached to: US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger)

But equivalent work experience is a lot longer. I might believe that someone with no degree and a decade plus of experience is as good as someone with a degree and 3-4 years, but he'd have to prove it. I find almost nobody without at least 3 years of college has a decent grasp of the fundamentals of computer science- data structures, algorithms, critical thinking and design. The people without degrees tend to just know how to google for answers and copy the results, and god forbid you change frameworks or languages on them- they're hopeless. Its to the point that no degree and less than 6 or 7 years of experience isn't going to get an interview over a guy right out of college because the odds favor the college grad having a higher ceiling.

Comment: Re:Custom ROM? (Score 0) 129

by AuMatar (#47400767) Attached to: Android Wear Is Here

Not the Play Store, Google Play Services. Totally different things. Google Play Services is a bunch of functionality like maps, geofencing, fusion location detector, activity detection, etc that they only license for a fee to OEMs that agree to a large list of terms they have to agree on. Google Play Services is basically the carrot they use to force OEMs to play by their rules.

Comment: Re:In a watch, batteries should last a year or mor (Score 4, Insightful) 129

by AuMatar (#47400257) Attached to: Android Wear Is Here

But the smartphone allowed people to do things they couldn't already do. The smartwatch allows them to.... not take their smartphone out of their pocket. That's it, its a subset of all the functionality of their phone, and it doesn't do most of them that well. There's nothing compelling about them.

Comment: Re:Charge what it costs to certify (Score 2, Funny) 123

by AuMatar (#47396563) Attached to: FDA: We Can't Scale To Regulate Mobile Health Apps

And I gave my reasoning. You can keep on to your infantile libertarian dreams, but a government agency is always more trustworthy than a private company- a government agency has at least some checks and balances and accountablility. A private agency has absolutely none, and is motivated solely by profits. Belief that they will actually do their job is asinine.

Private regulation is no regulation

Comment: Re:Charge what it costs to certify (Score -1) 123

by AuMatar (#47396467) Attached to: FDA: We Can't Scale To Regulate Mobile Health Apps

Sure he does- he says a private organization. There is no way in hell a private organization would ever be legit. First off, a private organization could make more money by reducing their oversight and rubber stamping, at least in the short term. And that's all most care about. Secondly, even if they didn't drug companies could make more money by setting up sock puppet regulators so they'd eventually just do that.

Private regulation is no regulation- period.

Comment: Re:Charge what it costs to certify (Score -1, Troll) 123

by AuMatar (#47396443) Attached to: FDA: We Can't Scale To Regulate Mobile Health Apps

Oh look, the Libertardians are out in full force.

Yes, the FDA is supposed to be enforcing efficacy. That's its entire point- to ensure that drugs do what they say.

Nor would regulating apps be about efficacy and not safety. If an app says you should take a certain drug and that drug has side effects, its a safety issue. If it provides a diagnosis and that's wrong, its a safety issue.

Comment: Re:Charge what it costs to certify (Score -1, Flamebait) 123

by AuMatar (#47396323) Attached to: FDA: We Can't Scale To Regulate Mobile Health Apps



Comment: Re:We can thank corporate America (Score 0) 279

by AuMatar (#47389745) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs?

Net positive shouldn't be more than a month. They're already trained programmers, even if they don't have the business knowledge to take on whole features they can be used as an assistant and start being worth their pay almost on day 1. The only way to be net negative is to take more time from senior programmers than they save by doing work, the only programmers that should have that issue for more than a week are juniors.
