If he starts a business doing this, there is one more secretary making $8/hour than before. One more employed paralegal than before. Or if the labor pool stayed the same size it would have some (but positive) effect on labor rates across the board.
The lawyer in this situation is the one that fronts the capital risk both in establishing the business and taking the years out of his life to acquire the credentials. The secretary and paralegal more or less just show up for work.
There is nothing to stop them from renting a place and hiring a lawyer and pocketing the profit themselves now is there?
Quite simply, labor has a price. There is nothing evil in offering that price.
Having been in the military and on board ship, all I can say is, "Just try to get your hands on one round from the armory." There are no over the counter bullets. Even the Lt (unless she was in the chain of command for the armory) would have a hard time getting something out of there.
By far the easier way to acquire illicit ammo is to mark training ammo as spent, and just not shoot it. That would be far more believable. Getting ammo from the armory is like robbing from the bank vault. If you were just after $200, you'd hit anywhere else instead.
Yea, but like a lot of other shows the method used to advance the plot is along the lines of "the military is filled with idiots." While this may be true to an extent, the military is built to operate efficiently while filled with idiots.
Take for instance the probe or whatever it was being fired off just because it fell on the floor. While I understand that was a plot device necessary to the storyline, I'm not happy with how it was pulled off. Anyone that designed a rocket to go spontaneously ignite merely because it was jostled a little should be strung up. If that thing goes off just from falling to the floor, I can't see how they don't all go off when they are slammed onto a ship and hurtled down the launch tubes. I can see where this kind of thinking goes though. Anything rocket propelled is going to have safety devices so that it only goes off when desired, especially in a combat environment. This mistake wouldn't be made today on the ground, much less something that you plan on putting in a spaceship.
Burning hydrogen as a nitpick...sure if you want to use up all your oxygen which is probably more precious.
All in all I'm having a great time watching series but rocket-randomly-fires-off bugged me a bit. It wasn't as bad as alien-fleet-gets-hacked-and-destroyed-brought-to-y ou-by-powerbook.
I could use a few less moments of something working out well just because everyone wants it so badly and they go against common sense and risk the fleet (saving starbuck). If I wanted that kind of stuff I'd watch Forest Gump. For the most part, there is a cold hard reality to the series. People are dying. People are getting left behind on dying planets. There is a traitor in the midst.
I think we can all agree that the most important thing is that in the future we'll be able to mass product hot blond or asian chicks to order.
I'll agree with you that the educational model is generic and lacks flexibility. But it is the relatively new reforms that are stifling the potential of the top students. The requirements of reaching the bottom 10% leave teachers with little ability to reach the top 10%. Everything about modern education is concerned with raising the bottom up to "passing".
Good, then we can stop pretending that professional woman's sports aren't played at the same level as high school boys.
Whether it is natural or not, there is a huge difference between the genders in math. My wife is a math teacher and sponsors the math competition team. Of everyone that tried out there is just one girl. This is only 6-8th grade as well. Out of an entire school, there is only one girl with the drive to reach beyond the curriculum.
I've seen this all along in education. When a class was optional and highly difficult it was filled with boys/men.
The debate over nature vs nuture will be a tough one though. By every indication from my wife nature vs nurture has already been decided by 6th grade.
You have to figure there are two main classes of PHP programmer. The on making web pages and the one making modules that make web pages. AOPHP might be useful to someone making something like PHPNuke (or not, I won't pretend to know). 99% of PHP programmers will likely never even hear about this.
I was a consultant at a place like this. The guy in the cube across from me was the permanent employee who had to give up fighting. It may have been the best 2 years or a project maintaining the legacy stuff as we watched the old get replaced by the an ineffective solution.
Before: Profitable product, $5mil per year.
After: Product replaced, clients leave in droves, product cancelled.
Now, I may not have an MBA and one of those fancy titled positions but I'm pretty sure I could have destroyed the project for half the $2mil it cost.
I tell myself I've given up on programming possibly being a good job but I know the next place I'm at, I'll still be making my please.
Oh, but the project did get converted from Perl to Java. Now they comply with the corporate standard. I know Perl programmers are bit harder to find but for a million or so I could find one. I fail to understand how there is no budget for 4 months of development to avoid maintenance but there is budget for 9 months of 7 developers to produce a brand new version of the product in a different language.
I'm tired of working with consultants that are only looking out for their own interests. I'm tired of the Managers who can't say no (or the systems where "no" isn't allowed). I left my last position because it felt like I was stealing. I was expected to advocate what would give us the hours instead of what would necessarily give the client his solution.
Oh well, I'm taking a few months off to produce my own stuff. Maybe this will cure me of my thoughts against stealing.
I suggest he save on the electric tape and just close his eyes before he sleeps. LED's just aren't bright enough to go through an eyelid.
This whole ask slashdot sounds like someone made a bet they could get something posted on slashdot. Right now someone is say, "haha, I won the bet" and someone else is saying, "yea, because the editors are idiots. that has to be the stupidest question they've posted."
I believe if you read about how he wrote the store front system that eventually became Yahoo Stores, he goes into what languages they used. If I remember correctly, they used LISP, Perl and C. They also didn't really use a database so much as they used the filesystem.
It would be hard for me to come up with any languages better at manipulating files on a Unix filesystem than Perl and C. I know his critics will say he should have used a database. It seems the Java crowd and the everything-must-have-a-database crowd have a large intersection. He said that was one of the points he worried about in selling the stores to Yahoo, but it turned out that's how they did stuff too.
My personal experience is that I've been on a lot of projects that have "replaced" legacy systems (Perl, COBOL, C, VB) with Java. I haven't seen a single one turn out better because of the language. I have seen a lot turn out worse because there is a much lower ratio of good programmers in Java than in the other languages. The companies I was at bought into Java big time, had to have everything Java, spent 5 times the resources of the legacy system to replace it and ended up with something worse. The consistent lesson to me is that the right programmer is more important than the right language. If you don't know how to pick the right programmer, you have better chances getting one if you hire a Perl or Python or LISP programmer than if you hire a Java programmer.
I was applying to be a Baker, but my guidance counseler had me take some aptitude tests and my strength lies in melee combat. I've been assigned to row 1 of keep storming division. Will I be able to see the fight from there? I don't want to miss it.
Having lived in El Paso, Texas every now and then we'd hear about someone that decided to drive El Paso to Dallas or Houston. They all thought it woiuld be a couple hours and not 10-12. Typically it's someone European or from the East coast who doesn't have the same sense of scale about driving as we do.
Oh, and for you Germans that visit in the summer, it's hot and you'll get sunburned very badly. Seriously, it's not just a little holiday sun. I don't know what it is but every German seems to get absolutely fried their first day if they visit in the summer. You guys do have sunlight over there don't you?
The ratio is vastly different for different languages. Python programmers are a self-selected group of people who opt to use Python often for the joy of programming. Java is the default corporate language now that people learn to get a job or make money.
Saying the two groups are equally intelligent is somewhere on the order of saying business majors and math majors are equally intelligent. Both attending college, but typically one group is after just a degree and the other is pursuing knowledge. The numbers are 100% either way, but there is a much higher percentage of geniuses in math than in business classes. Nobody flunks out of business into math.
Argument, short form: Java is the choice of consultants, not the choice of scientists.
Ok, for pure brainpower here is the competition I propose: Take a Python programmer and a Java programmer. They tackle the same problem in both Python and Java. I'm betting on the Python guy to present better solutions in both languages.
Most of the complaints about Graham are likely from people who are just barely programmers. Their real skills aren't as programmers but that they happen to know enough of the libraries to get things done. This makes them useful when combined with a certain industry experience, but it doesn't make them good programmers. One of the most common arguments for Java replacing other languages I've seen is that it's easier to find Java programmers and that they are pretty much replaceable. Personally, I no longer aspire to being easily replaceable. I'm now accepting positions that expect me to perform well enough that I would be difficult to replace.
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If he starts a business doing this, there is one more secretary making $8/hour than before. One more employed paralegal than before. Or if the labor pool stayed the same size it would have some (but positive) effect on labor rates across the board.
The lawyer in this situation is the one that fronts the capital risk both in establishing the business and taking the years out of his life to acquire the credentials. The secretary and paralegal more or less just show up for work.
There is nothing to stop them from renting a place and hiring a lawyer and pocketing the profit themselves now is there?
Quite simply, labor has a price. There is nothing evil in offering that price.
The anemic growth of the Internet in the last 10 years demands the intervention of a multinational government.
What?! That's discrimination!
Having been in the military and on board ship, all I can say is, "Just try to get your hands on one round from the armory." There are no over the counter bullets. Even the Lt (unless she was in the chain of command for the armory) would have a hard time getting something out of there.
By far the easier way to acquire illicit ammo is to mark training ammo as spent, and just not shoot it. That would be far more believable. Getting ammo from the armory is like robbing from the bank vault. If you were just after $200, you'd hit anywhere else instead.
Yea, but like a lot of other shows the method used to advance the plot is along the lines of "the military is filled with idiots." While this may be true to an extent, the military is built to operate efficiently while filled with idiots.
y ou-by-powerbook.
Take for instance the probe or whatever it was being fired off just because it fell on the floor. While I understand that was a plot device necessary to the storyline, I'm not happy with how it was pulled off. Anyone that designed a rocket to go spontaneously ignite merely because it was jostled a little should be strung up. If that thing goes off just from falling to the floor, I can't see how they don't all go off when they are slammed onto a ship and hurtled down the launch tubes. I can see where this kind of thinking goes though. Anything rocket propelled is going to have safety devices so that it only goes off when desired, especially in a combat environment. This mistake wouldn't be made today on the ground, much less something that you plan on putting in a spaceship.
Burning hydrogen as a nitpick...sure if you want to use up all your oxygen which is probably more precious.
All in all I'm having a great time watching series but rocket-randomly-fires-off bugged me a bit. It wasn't as bad as alien-fleet-gets-hacked-and-destroyed-brought-to-
I could use a few less moments of something working out well just because everyone wants it so badly and they go against common sense and risk the fleet (saving starbuck). If I wanted that kind of stuff I'd watch Forest Gump. For the most part, there is a cold hard reality to the series. People are dying. People are getting left behind on dying planets. There is a traitor in the midst.
I think we can all agree that the most important thing is that in the future we'll be able to mass product hot blond or asian chicks to order.
I'm just curious, but what language(s) of ultimate security is Java and Solaris written in?
Grand Theft Auto 64: One Night in Bangkok
I'll agree with you that the educational model is generic and lacks flexibility. But it is the relatively new reforms that are stifling the potential of the top students. The requirements of reaching the bottom 10% leave teachers with little ability to reach the top 10%. Everything about modern education is concerned with raising the bottom up to "passing".
No child gets ahead.
Well, a liberal would have to answer they are as smart and there is a clear bias.
A conservative would have to stand up for his values and make the claim that they are as dumb as they appear to be.
Good, then we can stop pretending that professional woman's sports aren't played at the same level as high school boys.
Whether it is natural or not, there is a huge difference between the genders in math. My wife is a math teacher and sponsors the math competition team. Of everyone that tried out there is just one girl. This is only 6-8th grade as well. Out of an entire school, there is only one girl with the drive to reach beyond the curriculum.
I've seen this all along in education. When a class was optional and highly difficult it was filled with boys/men.
The debate over nature vs nuture will be a tough one though. By every indication from my wife nature vs nurture has already been decided by 6th grade.
Not really, you could still get the same 8 hours of real work done in that same time.
Let the lawyer who does not lie cast the first stone.
Commence Operation Shakespeare.
If it is that important, your insurance company probably will have an opinion on which safe is best.
You have to figure there are two main classes of PHP programmer. The on making web pages and the one making modules that make web pages. AOPHP might be useful to someone making something like PHPNuke (or not, I won't pretend to know). 99% of PHP programmers will likely never even hear about this.
I was a consultant at a place like this. The guy in the cube across from me was the permanent employee who had to give up fighting. It may have been the best 2 years or a project maintaining the legacy stuff as we watched the old get replaced by the an ineffective solution.
Before:
Profitable product, $5mil per year.
After:
Product replaced, clients leave in droves, product cancelled.
Now, I may not have an MBA and one of those fancy titled positions but I'm pretty sure I could have destroyed the project for half the $2mil it cost.
I tell myself I've given up on programming possibly being a good job but I know the next place I'm at, I'll still be making my please.
Oh, but the project did get converted from Perl to Java. Now they comply with the corporate standard. I know Perl programmers are bit harder to find but for a million or so I could find one. I fail to understand how there is no budget for 4 months of development to avoid maintenance but there is budget for 9 months of 7 developers to produce a brand new version of the product in a different language.
I'm tired of working with consultants that are only looking out for their own interests. I'm tired of the Managers who can't say no (or the systems where "no" isn't allowed). I left my last position because it felt like I was stealing. I was expected to advocate what would give us the hours instead of what would necessarily give the client his solution.
Oh well, I'm taking a few months off to produce my own stuff. Maybe this will cure me of my thoughts against stealing.
It's all ball bearings these days.
The mistake is assuming that artistic merit is mutually exclusive of critical thinking.
It wasn't so long ago (as art goes, not computers) that the masters practically had to be chemists to make their paints.
You're thinking too small. If it becomes a device for the disabled, the government will start paying for them.
I suggest he save on the electric tape and just close his eyes before he sleeps. LED's just aren't bright enough to go through an eyelid.
This whole ask slashdot sounds like someone made a bet they could get something posted on slashdot. Right now someone is say, "haha, I won the bet" and someone else is saying, "yea, because the editors are idiots. that has to be the stupidest question they've posted."
Yea, but if I'm gonna die, I choose to go out between Daryl Hannah's thighs.
I believe if you read about how he wrote the store front system that eventually became Yahoo Stores, he goes into what languages they used. If I remember correctly, they used LISP, Perl and C. They also didn't really use a database so much as they used the filesystem.
It would be hard for me to come up with any languages better at manipulating files on a Unix filesystem than Perl and C. I know his critics will say he should have used a database. It seems the Java crowd and the everything-must-have-a-database crowd have a large intersection. He said that was one of the points he worried about in selling the stores to Yahoo, but it turned out that's how they did stuff too.
My personal experience is that I've been on a lot of projects that have "replaced" legacy systems (Perl, COBOL, C, VB) with Java. I haven't seen a single one turn out better because of the language. I have seen a lot turn out worse because there is a much lower ratio of good programmers in Java than in the other languages. The companies I was at bought into Java big time, had to have everything Java, spent 5 times the resources of the legacy system to replace it and ended up with something worse. The consistent lesson to me is that the right programmer is more important than the right language. If you don't know how to pick the right programmer, you have better chances getting one if you hire a Perl or Python or LISP programmer than if you hire a Java programmer.
I was applying to be a Baker, but my guidance counseler had me take some aptitude tests and my strength lies in melee combat. I've been assigned to row 1 of keep storming division. Will I be able to see the fight from there? I don't want to miss it.
Having lived in El Paso, Texas every now and then we'd hear about someone that decided to drive El Paso to Dallas or Houston. They all thought it woiuld be a couple hours and not 10-12. Typically it's someone European or from the East coast who doesn't have the same sense of scale about driving as we do.
Oh, and for you Germans that visit in the summer, it's hot and you'll get sunburned very badly. Seriously, it's not just a little holiday sun. I don't know what it is but every German seems to get absolutely fried their first day if they visit in the summer. You guys do have sunlight over there don't you?
The ratio is vastly different for different languages. Python programmers are a self-selected group of people who opt to use Python often for the joy of programming. Java is the default corporate language now that people learn to get a job or make money.
Saying the two groups are equally intelligent is somewhere on the order of saying business majors and math majors are equally intelligent. Both attending college, but typically one group is after just a degree and the other is pursuing knowledge. The numbers are 100% either way, but there is a much higher percentage of geniuses in math than in business classes. Nobody flunks out of business into math.
Argument, short form:
Java is the choice of consultants, not the choice of scientists.
Ok, for pure brainpower here is the competition I propose: Take a Python programmer and a Java programmer. They tackle the same problem in both Python and Java. I'm betting on the Python guy to present better solutions in both languages.
Most of the complaints about Graham are likely from people who are just barely programmers. Their real skills aren't as programmers but that they happen to know enough of the libraries to get things done. This makes them useful when combined with a certain industry experience, but it doesn't make them good programmers. One of the most common arguments for Java replacing other languages I've seen is that it's easier to find Java programmers and that they are pretty much replaceable. Personally, I no longer aspire to being easily replaceable. I'm now accepting positions that expect me to perform well enough that I would be difficult to replace.
-- Former consultant