I actually tried using Drupal for several projects a few years back and my final thought on it was to walk away and never look back. Sure, it was insanely powerful and customizable at it’s ground floor, but even before WordPress figured out how to better handle contributions from multiple users and became as much a website management system as a blogging platform, getting Drupal to do some very simple stuff that was effectively baked in for WordPress was… onerous. It’s not the power – it’s eve…
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Peter Grant makes the following point regarding “Amazon is taking away muh jobs [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-for-easy-target-to-blame-for.html] .” > Companies who are currently struggling to attract customers, such as retail stores, often have themselves to blame for their predicament. They stock limited merchandise, employ the minimum number of store staff (many of whom have no idea what they’re selling or how it works), offer minimal customer service (and that on…
Even as I’m listening long-time Apple fanboy Andy Ihnatko take them to task on MacBreak Weekly for what I fully agree is a crappy waste of money in their active function bar, I’ve been exploring alternatives. Personally, I’m pretty happy with Mint, but it shares with most linux distros some rough appearance edges, especially in the cursors, though that has vastly improved. I find the changes in Ubuntu an eyesore, and can get around CentOs/Fedora but prefer Debian-style package management to Fed…
Vox recently posted on H-1B Visas [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/03/h1b-real-cost-benefit.html], and the comment sections are gold. I’ve had a couple experiences that are relevant – both in hiring and Indian team for a project, and in dealing with Indian call center tech support. I’ll insert my own observations where needed. First, coding, and lack of comprehension. > True. Every Indian & Pakistani I worked with couldn’t program their way out of a wet paper bag. They rely almost entirely o…
Peter Grant references [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2016/09/first-world-job-security-in-third-world.html] an article [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/omen-lost-shirts-david-hunt-pe] by David Hunt on the impact of offshoring. In it, I saw this little comment by Vox (italics for emphasis): > And while I can, on an intellectual basis, appreciate the economic arguments in favor of offshoring – like the one put forth by scholar Walter E. Williams, a man whose views I generally admire, h…