Not software development. UI design. This is only a small part of the discipline but it is an important one. Letting people perform un-reversibly delete data without warning is generally considered a bad thing. This is why the trash can/recycle bin metaphor exists.
That is not exactly the story that is being told. I can't say what is true but the claim is that they would make a big deal out of this if the talk went on. That is not the same thing as giving their opinion.
While the stones are great because they don't add some arbitrary amount of water, I do like a few drops in my scotch to open up the flavors a bit. This is particularly true with overproof scotches.
For a lark, take a shot of water and add a few drops of scotch. I find that i can pick up on many flavors that get lost in the overall intensity of the drink. Also its like homeopathy for drinkers:-)
not too bad honestly, but really, I almost never take off my watch. I sleep with it on and I shower with it. I take it off when I get a massage since it gets in the way.
Charging my watch might be a bridge to far for me unless it does something really really awesome.
What slashdot believes about tablets is completely irrelevant. They talk about tablets as just scaled up phones like the size of the screen doesn't make a huge impact on the use of the device. It represents a huge change not only to the display but also to the input device. To call them the same thing is to ignore the entire interface paradigm, something sadly common among engineers actually.
Slashdot will be parroting this "tablets are only for consumption" thing forever regardless of how people are actually using them in the real world.
Why do people compare gas prices in different countries without looking at the tax rate. That tax doesn't have to be there, the money supposedly brings some benefits for you guys. If you aren't getting good benefits for your taxes then you should consider complaining to your elected officials.
From the sounds of it, Anonymous is claiming that the evidence points to more than 2 teenagers being involved and that there are considerable accusations that many members of the football team were involved and have not been charged and possibly some adults, including the coach, have been complicit in the rape and the protection of certain teenagers who were involved.
Now I haven't seen the evidence, but if only 2 teenagers have been charged when there is evidence that others are involved I can understand why they may have taken these steps. As was said upstream, the police already have the evidence but that doesn't mean that they are acting on all of it.
Of course this could all be bullshit too, but pretending that the police and prosecutors are taking the proper action just because 2 teenagers are charged (in a GANG rape no less) is being a little naive. The idea that some limited number of students might take the fall for a crime while others would get away with it is not entirely a stretch of the imagination.
Frankly I hope someone takes a closer look at it all as a result of this and makes sure that anyone involved is punished. Particularly anyone who helped took actions to protect the guilty.
I'm going to assume that the poster is not an idiot and that this guy really is writing horrible code as described.
What I am mostly hearing here is that the company lacks things like basic code reviews or any kind standards. I cannot imagine how this guys boss is ok with checkins like what the poster is describing. This sort of thing would be caught at any half way decent company.
Sure, this guy sounds bad but it has to be symptomatic of the company having serious issues. Its probably time to find a better job while you still have this one and perhaps at the exit interview you can clue some people into some of these problems.
Or just suck it up and deal, but this likely wont be the last problem.
I once met a doctor who, in all honesty, did not know what the word falsifiable meant.
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I'm not saying legos are or even were over priced, simply that they are expensive. Certainly the reasons you mention are among the reasons why legos were expensive.
I think lego's are great, but I find it ridiculous for someone to say they are so expensive now when they were incredibly expensive when I was a kid and even well before that.
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Given all that potential difficulties why would a company like Facebook, which lives and dies on the Internet and surely understands its complexity, use something as unreliable as Skype for an interview?
I use phones, in fact I set up a land line just for my last job search so that this would not be an issue. The reliance on Skype for something like this is a poor choice.
I suspect google can get by taking a loss on android because of what they make back in targeted advertising and over time they will be able to call upon more and more information from your devices to target ads more effectively.
See, learning new skills should improve your pay, but even without it your pay should be going up steadily just to account for increases in the cost of living. Hell you should be beating that for a while just because of the additional value you gain simply through experience.
Yes, training matters so you have trained up and seen your wages go up and you think that is good but the fact of the matter is they haven't gone up by as much as they should because you are working from a flat baseline while cost of living has gone up. That is why these statistics are important. I make twice what I did when I got out of school but I am more than twice as valuable as I was and that twice as much doesn't go as far as it would have back then.
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Not software development. UI design. This is only a small part of the discipline but it is an important one. Letting people perform un-reversibly delete data without warning is generally considered a bad thing. This is why the trash can/recycle bin metaphor exists.
who is going to make a game that uses tablet controls but is so resource intensive that it is only usable on this one tablet?
By that standard didn't Linus just re-implement a kernel?
The phrase "harm reduction" is most often used in the context of sex and/or drugs.
That is not exactly the story that is being told. I can't say what is true but the claim is that they would make a big deal out of this if the talk went on. That is not the same thing as giving their opinion.
Its a high value theft. I assume they have some threshold for value of stolen goods that makes it major or minor.
While the stones are great because they don't add some arbitrary amount of water, I do like a few drops in my scotch to open up the flavors a bit. This is particularly true with overproof scotches.
For a lark, take a shot of water and add a few drops of scotch. I find that i can pick up on many flavors that get lost in the overall intensity of the drink. Also its like homeopathy for drinkers :-)
not too bad honestly, but really, I almost never take off my watch. I sleep with it on and I shower with it. I take it off when I get a massage since it gets in the way.
Charging my watch might be a bridge to far for me unless it does something really really awesome.
my watch doesn't manage DST at all.
You don't get it man... they are doing it on the internet
What slashdot believes about tablets is completely irrelevant. They talk about tablets as just scaled up phones like the size of the screen doesn't make a huge impact on the use of the device. It represents a huge change not only to the display but also to the input device. To call them the same thing is to ignore the entire interface paradigm, something sadly common among engineers actually.
Slashdot will be parroting this "tablets are only for consumption" thing forever regardless of how people are actually using them in the real world.
And how much of that is tax?
Why do people compare gas prices in different countries without looking at the tax rate. That tax doesn't have to be there, the money supposedly brings some benefits for you guys. If you aren't getting good benefits for your taxes then you should consider complaining to your elected officials.
From the sounds of it, Anonymous is claiming that the evidence points to more than 2 teenagers being involved and that there are considerable accusations that many members of the football team were involved and have not been charged and possibly some adults, including the coach, have been complicit in the rape and the protection of certain teenagers who were involved.
Now I haven't seen the evidence, but if only 2 teenagers have been charged when there is evidence that others are involved I can understand why they may have taken these steps. As was said upstream, the police already have the evidence but that doesn't mean that they are acting on all of it.
Of course this could all be bullshit too, but pretending that the police and prosecutors are taking the proper action just because 2 teenagers are charged (in a GANG rape no less) is being a little naive. The idea that some limited number of students might take the fall for a crime while others would get away with it is not entirely a stretch of the imagination.
Frankly I hope someone takes a closer look at it all as a result of this and makes sure that anyone involved is punished. Particularly anyone who helped took actions to protect the guilty.
yea someone might find out that you rode "Its a small world" 57 times when you were at the park.
Thats what we call a straw man. I have read 1984 and this is not 1984, not even close.
if I order a cup of coffee and someone brings me an actual cup worth of coffee I would go to someplace that has bigger mugs.
See, for me this brought to mind an entirely different kind of swedish fish.
Though gummy fish with huge brains seem kind of scary actually.
I'm going to assume that the poster is not an idiot and that this guy really is writing horrible code as described.
What I am mostly hearing here is that the company lacks things like basic code reviews or any kind standards. I cannot imagine how this guys boss is ok with checkins like what the poster is describing. This sort of thing would be caught at any half way decent company.
Sure, this guy sounds bad but it has to be symptomatic of the company having serious issues. Its probably time to find a better job while you still have this one and perhaps at the exit interview you can clue some people into some of these problems.
Or just suck it up and deal, but this likely wont be the last problem.
I once met a doctor who, in all honesty, did not know what the word falsifiable meant.
I'm not saying legos are or even were over priced, simply that they are expensive. Certainly the reasons you mention are among the reasons why legos were expensive.
I think lego's are great, but I find it ridiculous for someone to say they are so expensive now when they were incredibly expensive when I was a kid and even well before that.
Now? Lego has always been extremely expensive.
Given all that potential difficulties why would a company like Facebook, which lives and dies on the Internet and surely understands its complexity, use something as unreliable as Skype for an interview?
I use phones, in fact I set up a land line just for my last job search so that this would not be an issue. The reliance on Skype for something like this is a poor choice.
Turns out you might have no idea what it takes to end up on one of these registries until you are on one.
I suspect google can get by taking a loss on android because of what they make back in targeted advertising and over time they will be able to call upon more and more information from your devices to target ads more effectively.
See, learning new skills should improve your pay, but even without it your pay should be going up steadily just to account for increases in the cost of living. Hell you should be beating that for a while just because of the additional value you gain simply through experience.
Yes, training matters so you have trained up and seen your wages go up and you think that is good but the fact of the matter is they haven't gone up by as much as they should because you are working from a flat baseline while cost of living has gone up. That is why these statistics are important. I make twice what I did when I got out of school but I am more than twice as valuable as I was and that twice as much doesn't go as far as it would have back then.