<quote><p>Quality of the education system (since that's what we are talking about): USA 60+ universities in the top 100. Germany: 5 in the Times Higher Education Rankings</p></quote>
Divide by number of people in the country.
<quote><p>Where is German innovation? Compare the number of US high tech companies with German. Compare the ease of obtaining capital for entrepreneurs in USA v. Germany. For that matter compare the popular culture where Germany almost completely copies the USA.</p></quote>
See the automobile industry, clean energy industry and national debt share per capita.
You are a blind moron and people like you are exactly what keeps the US from becoming a leader again.
If you were doing engine work, you'd know that there's quite a bit of fine engineering that goes into these cars. If you look at acceptable tolerances in fitting engine component together and compare them with American manufacturers, you will become enlightened as to why the German cars are just better.
Hopefully, as scientists, they know that their 'cloud' is only as resilient as the underlying hardware, regardless of number of OS instances running on it.
There are many flavors of corporate culture and certain personalities I would rather not be around, regardless of how interesting/exciting/well paying the actual job is. So getting to experience the environment before fully committing is of value, especially if you are considering a long distance move. With that said, a week seems slightly long, a couple of days should give both parties enough insight into potential future.
In my 20 years in IT (and all of these years spent working for myself), I've also seen quite a bit of the 'outsource it to the lowest bidder' trend. With that said, there's been no shortage of system security gigs and a long list of failed projects that I was chosen to rescue. There are plenty of companies that try to lower software dev cost and see their projects crash and burn. Once they realize that they get what they pay for, they try to save the project by throwing money at it and by hiring people that can actually be accountable. That has netted me some well paid gigs. Not necessarily very pleasant ones, as you have to wade through some seriously unreadable and bizarre code, but gigs that pay bills nonetheless. Given the nature of these gigs, you need to be able to quickly unit test, analyze and generally review code to decide whether it's better to fix it or just start from scratch. Most customers, after sinking large amounts money in their offshore outsourcing exercise, are not very happy when they hear that it would be less expensive to just restart from scratch, so you need a fair amount of confidence to propose such solution to them. In summary, all of the above mentioned skills and the required poise come with experience, so it may be better to get some serious experience at a decent company, as an employee, before you venture out to the world and try to freelance. YMMV if you have certain personality traits and are super-sharp. Good luck.
Really? I thought TSA would find and (most likely) confiscate the device upon ENTRY to the terminal... at least that's what they tell us they are trying to do, no?
I've had a good experience with MooseFS (http://www.moosefs.org/) using my macbook pro and a couple of old BSD boxes. There are other distributed filesystems that will give you peace of mind in terms of storage resiliency - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems
One more thing worth mentioning - keep a daily log of your work activities. If you are coding and committing code to an external (outside of your home office) repository, then that may be your log. Otherwise, mark everything you do, including each phone call you make or take - one cohesive sentence per action should do.
Precisely. When people comment on my working from home (~ a decade now) and tell me how cool it is, I tell them that it is and it isn't. It is for the obvious reasons, it isn't because you are never truly 'out of office'... your coworkers/bosses/customers will know it and some of them will try to abuse it - at least as long as they know/expect you to be at home when they call. Having a separate, work-only phone line in your home office helps to keep them at bay on weekends and at night. A simple recurring calendar reminder of lunch break and EOB also helps maintain a healthy schedule, which is something I still find difficult to do without external reminders (iCal in my case). Also, you may have to force certain people to respect your lunch break - never eat in your home office and do not answer your business line during your lunch break, unless you'd answer your cell while at lunch a few blocks away from your 'regular' office. The point being, if it's an emergency that you are the only person capable of solving they will most likely call your cell anyway.
By filing a lawsuit they would be admitting to wrongdoing/negligence. Since it's a startup, they probably want to avoid negative publicity. Your best option: STFU and carry on.
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From TFA: "...and because autopsies reveal medical mistakes, making doctors and hospitals uncomfortable..."
Isn't the point of autopsy to find the reason for death? Even if it is a mistake of some hack in a white coat? Really?
...strudents are slacking here. Get back to your work. Recount!
Been doing that since mid-90's, how's this new?
It was more than 5%, more like 10% in San Diego. I saw highest octane gas at 5.09 yesterday.
No points, but +1
And it should be pepperoni and mushrooms pizza, FYI
... and the FDA is theig bad gubiment he hates with passion. Freak show ringmaster is what druggie Limbaugh is.
I'll bite. In simplest of terms to increase the chance of you being able to digest it.
<quote><p>What makes you think Germany is doing better than the USA?</p></quote>
Quality of life.
<quote><p>Per capita GDP? USA: $48K, Germany: $37K</p></quote>
Buying power.
<quote><p>Quality of the education system (since that's what we are talking about): USA 60+ universities in the top 100. Germany: 5 in the Times Higher Education Rankings</p></quote>
Divide by number of people in the country.
<quote><p>Where is German innovation? Compare the number of US high tech companies with German. Compare the ease of obtaining capital for entrepreneurs in USA v. Germany. For that matter compare the popular culture where Germany almost completely copies the USA.</p></quote>
See the automobile industry, clean energy industry and national debt share per capita.
You are a blind moron and people like you are exactly what keeps the US from becoming a leader again.
If you were doing engine work, you'd know that there's quite a bit of fine engineering that goes into these cars. If you look at acceptable tolerances in fitting engine component together and compare them with American manufacturers, you will become enlightened as to why the German cars are just better.
Disclaimer: Both BMW and Audi on the driveway.
Hey dope, ever heard of induction? Go read a little.
Hopefully, as scientists, they know that their 'cloud' is only as resilient as the underlying hardware, regardless of number of OS instances running on it.
... and we should all say 'Thank you Mr. Tesla'.
There are many flavors of corporate culture and certain personalities I would rather not be around, regardless of how interesting/exciting/well paying the actual job is. So getting to experience the environment before fully committing is of value, especially if you are considering a long distance move. With that said, a week seems slightly long, a couple of days should give both parties enough insight into potential future.
In my 20 years in IT (and all of these years spent working for myself), I've also seen quite a bit of the 'outsource it to the lowest bidder' trend. With that said, there's been no shortage of system security gigs and a long list of failed projects that I was chosen to rescue. There are plenty of companies that try to lower software dev cost and see their projects crash and burn. Once they realize that they get what they pay for, they try to save the project by throwing money at it and by hiring people that can actually be accountable. That has netted me some well paid gigs. Not necessarily very pleasant ones, as you have to wade through some seriously unreadable and bizarre code, but gigs that pay bills nonetheless. Given the nature of these gigs, you need to be able to quickly unit test, analyze and generally review code to decide whether it's better to fix it or just start from scratch. Most customers, after sinking large amounts money in their offshore outsourcing exercise, are not very happy when they hear that it would be less expensive to just restart from scratch, so you need a fair amount of confidence to propose such solution to them. In summary, all of the above mentioned skills and the required poise come with experience, so it may be better to get some serious experience at a decent company, as an employee, before you venture out to the world and try to freelance. YMMV if you have certain personality traits and are super-sharp. Good luck.
Yes, but the feds already have the patriot act and such. This, if signed off on by Brown, will prevent CA cops from unchecked snooping.
At 4:00PM (local time), we all put the glasses on and look into our old school kaleidoscopes = hourly DDOS?
Really? I thought TSA would find and (most likely) confiscate the device upon ENTRY to the terminal... at least that's what they tell us they are trying to do, no?
Add https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googlesharing/ Google Sharing - a tracking anonymizing proxy FF plugin to the list.
I've had a good experience with MooseFS (http://www.moosefs.org/) using my macbook pro and a couple of old BSD boxes. There are other distributed filesystems that will give you peace of mind in terms of storage resiliency - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems
One more thing worth mentioning - keep a daily log of your work activities. If you are coding and committing code to an external (outside of your home office) repository, then that may be your log. Otherwise, mark everything you do, including each phone call you make or take - one cohesive sentence per action should do.
Precisely. When people comment on my working from home (~ a decade now) and tell me how cool it is, I tell them that it is and it isn't. It is for the obvious reasons, it isn't because you are never truly 'out of office'... your coworkers/bosses/customers will know it and some of them will try to abuse it - at least as long as they know/expect you to be at home when they call. Having a separate, work-only phone line in your home office helps to keep them at bay on weekends and at night. A simple recurring calendar reminder of lunch break and EOB also helps maintain a healthy schedule, which is something I still find difficult to do without external reminders (iCal in my case). Also, you may have to force certain people to respect your lunch break - never eat in your home office and do not answer your business line during your lunch break, unless you'd answer your cell while at lunch a few blocks away from your 'regular' office. The point being, if it's an emergency that you are the only person capable of solving they will most likely call your cell anyway.
Bin-Laden - hacker from hell
Fuckin' A!
thr o t t l i n g
He obviously fails to understand the core nature of the Internet. Maybe he should go back to the spaghetti code factory he probably came from.
By filing a lawsuit they would be admitting to wrongdoing/negligence. Since it's a startup, they probably want to avoid negative publicity. Your best option: STFU and carry on.