AFAIK, there is no changes in accounting process since, I don't know, 50 years ago? Accounting should have been replaced by software and people start teaching/learning how to use the software instead of teaching at university.
Well there's a reason it hasn't been replaced. Accountant's job is far from easily automated. Companies use different types of documents, make different kind of papers. Accountant not only needs to blindly write and rewrite numbers, but also understand and comprehend the intent and that includes some knowledge of business logic even in some cases. Companies like oracle have tried to make automation tools for accounting for decades, but manual work is still required absolutely everywhere. Unless everyone adopt some kind of universal standard and fill same papers in same way, automation won't happen there, not on large scale at least.
Do not. If you based your decision because you think or heard that some famous and rich people dropped out from school, you just committed survivorship bias. [1]
Here is a thing that I learned when I finished college (I have two degrees which means it has been happened twice in my life):
college is not just about learning, its about finding friends and socializing. You can learn anything by yourself, anytime, anywhere, but knowing some people is hard.
You may think that your friend is loser, because they are just playing or party around. Well, here is the thing: one of your friend will be someone, either small business men or work in government. This is a long-term investment. When they success and you have learned more skill in IT, when they need some custom software or service, they will probably remember you and call you or vice versa.
Big company can wait later, do you think you are the only programmer out there? Think again, there is probably more with a degree, experience, and smarter than you.
So, you failed on exam? Try again and keep having fun with your friend.
So, you don't like socializing? Write something, built something, while you still have free time in college, learn and create. Later you will get a degree and product to show. Free time is hard to get when you already in "big" company.
Do you even use Slack? I don't work for Slack but your comment is so misleading.
> but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable.
No it is not. Look at the top right and type your words. If you use free plan, only 10k message will be archived, other than that it will be deleted.[1]
> Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem. With Slack, a lot of that knowledge disappears.
Its a tool for direct communication for group, not for documentation. I think you miss a hammer for screwdriver.
I use Slack often, and yes I know about the search feature.
How do I find the answer to a question that was posted two months ago, for an open source project that is not paying to keep more than 10K messages?
History vanishes with Slack. I get why this is very cool for internal communication. I just question the use of Slack for open source community driven projects.
Plus, C/C++ programmer can do a refactoring or optimizing more in their code, even in low level, with the limit is only their time and skills, but in high level languages like Java/.NET optimizing level is stuck in VM.
Looks like we miss some important question here.
How spammer got the emails ? Do the Spam bots really crawled to every web pages ?
Some note that i learn from Internet to minimize spam emails:
- Never use third party proxy or anonymous network (i.e. Tor). I once work for company that not allowed to use any port except 8080, so for several months i use Tor. Suddenly, after several weeks my spam folder increased with junk emails.
- Make sure you clear all your caches and cookies _before_ and after browsing for pr0n. duh! :)
- Never use any third party application from Facebook/MySpace/any-social-networks, unless you using your non-private mail on your Facebook/MySpace/any-social-networks account.
- Do not read spam email. If you know that email is spam just check it and delete, or let the system delete it automatically, like Gmail do. I do not know anything about SMTP protocol but there is one feature that make your email notified to sender when you read it, by opening your email you just notified the spammer that your email is, at least still, active.
Spammer, in context of the emails gatherer, is not stupid. They know what their doing.
Brain cells should be used to remember important things. Most important things are conveyed by i.e. poems. Although nobody learns literature citings by heart in the era of wikipedia, a straightforward way to have a strong password is to pick e.g. the first letters of each line of a poem (aka passphrase you should already know), as described in the man:
When choosing a new password, make sure it's unrelated to any previous password. Use long passwords (say 8 characters long). You might use a word pair with punctuation inserted, a passphrase (an understandable sequence of words), or the first letter of each word in a passphrase.
...then you upgrade to snowy, and later realize that a given lib is not compatible with your favourite password manager and shut yourself out until you manage to restore your access. For generating hard passwords, you might as well go for ssh keys and manage those. But tastes and customs differ...
This is what happened when non-engineering people become part of engineering. Everything is looks wrong.
'90: "Dear X, your program does not work in my system, here is a patch."
'00: "WTF, i cannot run this program, what should i do ?"
There is nothing wrong in Linux as OS, in fact it's become more mature and usable since i first install it. Most problems that i read in forum now is about not working hardware or from people that does not know how to read manual or to lazy.
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All STAT data are collected from standard Solaris or Linux programs (vmstat, iostat, etc.) or some special (like psSTAT for users/processes activity) and saved in MySQL database. Collected data are accessed via Web interface and can be presented in several manner (interactive or static graphs, text, HTML tables).
dim_STAT can be used for On-Line monitoring one or several hosts on the same time. As well, data may be easily post loaded from output files of stat commands and analyzed in the same manner. At any time collecting from new stat commands may be added to the tool (via Add-On interface) and enlarge your view on application workload, RDBMS, your personal STAT program, etc.
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AFAIK, there is no changes in accounting process since, I don't know, 50 years ago? Accounting should have been replaced by software and people start teaching/learning how to use the software instead of teaching at university.