Neither have I. Remember kids once upon a time there were commercials like this. You never trust anyone who's only in it for the money. That's our Free Enterprise Capitalism lesson for the day. You're welcome.
The selection is quite large, and it is very convenient. You just need to get over your misguided addiction to instant gratification, and be willing to work off a queue instead.
I'm actually completely fine with that. I am usually watching content after it's been out for awhile and buying games after they've hit the bargain bin. I've never felt compelled to have to have the latest and greatest thing as soon as it comes out. *shrug*
Facebook, please give us a way to opt out of these additional services. I'm not interested in a marketplace or these add-on services you keep adding. If you're going to add it, at least allow me to customize my experience to suit my preferences, k thx bai. I have actually started using Facebook a lot less. There is a game I really like that I found on Facebook but now because they keep making Facebook into this hulking albatross, I found a way to access it outside of Facebook. If it weren't for me wanting to keep somewhat in touch with old friends and family, I probably wouldn't use Facebook at all.
What do you do when things get difficult? when you're faced with something very unfamiliar, poorly written, opaque and massive that it needs to be reverse engineered to be understood... to the point that it may not be solvable?
Let me try to describe. In regard to dealing with a difficult problem: First, I do what I believe is brute force conscious graph traversal through all kinds of different approaches that are potentially heuristically applicable to the problem at hand. This occurs almost like what I've heard quantum computing described as. At each node, I simulate application of that solution to the problem domain. If nothing applies, I skip the node. If something partially applies I stored that information and continue onto other nodes. If the node wholly applies, I'm done. Solution found. If after exhaustively traversing this graph/mind map I do not find something using conscious brute force, I back away from the problem and do something else. During this time, my conscious mind is focused on the "something else" but it is as if a background process in my mind is still thinking about the unsolved problem. Sometimes, this background process will interrupt the foreground process and have a solution. Other times, after taking a break I come back to the original problem with more insight for some unknown reason.
In regard to poorly written or hard to grasp material, I keep re-reading the material. Each time more sticks. Eventually, my brain seems to memorize all the material and arrange the information in such a way that it makes sense conceptually in my mind. This is and has always been a very non-deterministic activity for me. I've noticed though once I get it, unless something changes, I know it forever and can recall the information very quickly. I also have at least partially an eidetic memory so that might have something to do with it too. *shrug*
Try solving a real hard problem listening to happy music (or the music you prefer). If the problem is cognitively taxing for you, notice any differences.
I don't need to experiment with other methods of doing the same thing I already do quite effectively.
You can teach children basic techniques used by artists or you can teach them music theory. You can have them do exercises until they can imitate other people's works.
The whole idea that you can teach creativity or improve it demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about what creativity is. Just look at anything that Thomas Kinkade did, there's little to no evidence of creativity in any of what he's famous for.
Sure you can, you just need some happy trees and a little bit of titanium white, it's easy peasy.;) I've had friends try to imitate what Bob Ross did that seemed so easy. It's not easy and he didn't explain all the little nuances that he was doing from muscle memory... he probably didn't even really know consciously the little things he did.
I'm reminded of several John Cleese quotes on the subject:
"Creativity is not a skill, it's a state of mind, being in the open state."
Much as I like John Cleese, he's wrong on this point. Creativity is a skill, one that can be improved and can be taught, even taught to children.
You can teach children basic techniques used by artists or you can teach them music theory. You can have them do exercises until they can imitate other people's works. They can get far and create neat things that way but you can't teach them how to create truly ground-breaking, unique pieces of art or music this way. That is something that comes from somewhere else and it's highly subjective. Inspiration can strike at the strangest of times. Even mathematicians and scientists have bursts of creativity where they suddenly realize the answer to something. Where do you think "Eureka!" came from? I once worked with a highly creative software engineering team. We had a really talented DBA. One day he was faced with a very complex problem and he couldn't see the answer and grew frustrated with himself. After work, he went to mow his lawn and while not thinking about anything just mowing, it hit him what the answer was. The next day he came in an solved the problem like a boss. I've also had this sort of thing happen myself.
> Your coding is probably not taxing your problem solving skills.
Bingo. That's a much more eloquent way of saying what I just wrote a few posts below.
You're better than The Great Carnac! How would you know? I deal with some very advanced object modelling, graph theory and mathematics. I suppose you could say that perhaps I've been doing this long enough that my brain is attuned to dealing with this problem domain and therefore I no longer find it cognitively taxing. I am also a musician and can compose and play very advanced, colorful musical compositions and in many styles on several instruments but I no longer find it difficult. It was very difficult at one time in my life though. Now, I can do that without exerting much conscious thought so perhaps you might be correct in the sentiment of "not taxing your problem solving skills". *shrug*
You're fooling yourself if you think our life expectancies are not higher due to the trappings of civilization. Food production, shelter, medicine, sanitation practices, and less violence from our human peers are all huge impacts. Take a modern human out of all of this and put them in a "natural" environment and their evolved genes will not provide the same benefits. They'd have to bootstrap all that social knowledge through many generations of savage living and untimely deaths all over again...
Agriculture and making food perish more slowly, sure. Shelter... eh, I'd like to see statistics about the effect of "advanced shelters" on life expectancy. Medicine, as I said we conquered our natural predators which includes micro-organisms (think vaccinations). That had a huge effect on life expectancy. Sanitation, would like to see how significant this has been on life expectancy. I'm sure it had some impact but if we threw it on the pie chart of contributing factors, it's probably a sliver. "Less violence", I'd like to see the evidence of that. We haven't given up war yet. We are still fighting over religion quite furiously. I'm speaking of the human race in general not just so-called "first world countries".
Some of the things you're referring to don't have as much impact on individual life expectancy as you might think. They are more for allowing for larger population growth by increasing the supply of things. It would be wise to differentiate between the two things because they are two very different things.
Yeah, but as we stopped living like wild animals, we started living a lot longer.
We live a lot longer because of the random genetic mutation that enabled our higher cognitive functions that allowed us to out-smart our natural predators not because we are more resilient against our natural environment.
This is probably some algorithm that a developer came up with when the OutOfDiskSpaceException gets thrown. They probably took a WAG at what it ought to do and this is what they came up with. It reclaims the least important disk space usage to allocate space for new usage. If the Product Owner cared about this scenario, they should have made better acceptance criteria.
When I'm coding, high energy music is what gets my creative juices flowing. There is more evidence to suggest that what is related to creativity is how much stress you are under. The closer you are are to "fight or flight response" the more resources are being taken away from the cognitive processes that give rise to creativity. I'm reminded of several John Cleese quotes on the subject:
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." "Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake." "Creativity is not a skill, it's a state of mind, being in the open state."
We are not in open states when we are stressed. Perhaps for some "happy music", whatever that means, helps with getting "into the zone". Just find whatever it is that gets you in the zone and practice mindfulness about getting into that zone and staying there as long as you can.
Oh I dunno... I'd actually be concerned if it made it far enough into your body that the lymphatic system got involved at all...
You know what's remarkable to me? We are relatives of Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Once upon a time we were out in the wild eating rancid raw meat and drinking from contaminated water sources on a regular basis much the same as other animals. From an evolutionary standpoint, we evolved to be able to deal with a lot of impurities being filtered out as a matter of survival. Now granted, we do see evidence that at some point we have lost some of our ability to do this. For example, our appendixes no longer work and I believe that was the means by which we used to be able to break down and digest bones.
We live in a time where large parts of our society do not realize that we are animals and when we were more primitive we were very much like other animals. I'm sure when we were more like Chimpanzees and Bonobos we scratched our butts and flung poop at each other. It's as if our delusional society thinks everything ought to be sparkling pristine clean and completely pure when there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that is not a natural state in the universe. It's completely irrational.
The question is : does it have a significant impact on biological activity of human at those level, and is it below or above the legally set quantity ?
Well, that would require a more deeper analysis into the effectiveness of the human lymphatic system to remove impurities from the body and the results might be... less sensationalist...
I'd like to get out of the terms of my mortgage agreement too. Suck it Comcast. Remember corporations are people. That's how you slime bags wanted it. Enjoy!
Update your resume *every single day*, by at least a few lines of text, even if you're just rotating among 5 or so resumes, so that the resume search engines report it as significantly modified and "fresh".
This presumes you have a LinkedIn profile. From what I understand, your chances decrease around 17% if you don't have one. IMHO, that's discrimination. It's almost Orwellian. The good news is when there are more jobs than applicants again, this will change.
The problem is HR is blamed when someone else makes a poor hiring decision and needs to fire of if they quit to find a job that pays better. So they are trying to reduce this by adding mediocre workers who fit the job description rather than great or bad employees.
Translation: when the business isn't successful, the C suite needs a scapegoat for their failure to be able to run the business adequately.
Job ad bullet points are used as filters and do a great job (ha!) of filtering out all of the ideal candidates in favor of the ones that will gladly lie about their skill sets yet can't write anything more trivial than strcpy() on a whiteboard. Maybe you stop looking for "workers with cloud experience" and start looking for "workers that have great system administration skills who we'll train to use the specific 'cloud' thingy we're using this month." After all, what these job posts that demand a "hit the ground running" candidate fail to realize is that they have to train the new employee in the operations and peculiarities unique to their business anyway.
This, sooooo much this!
HR is the real problem here and they need to be fired.
Read my post above. Do a Google search for "Evil HR ATS". There are actually online services you can use that can compute a score for your resume and cover letter. You can actually use this to inflate your score just by word-smithing the right keywords in. The whole system is broke.
"89 percent of hiring managers report difficulty in finding qualified talent for open source roles"
When your job ad demands 7-10 years of experience in a thing that isn't even 10 years old then yeah, you might have some difficulty "finding quality talent" because you're being ridiculous.
Job ad bullet points are used as filters and do a great job (ha!) of filtering out all of the ideal candidates in favor of the ones that will gladly lie about their skill sets yet can't write anything more trivial than strcpy() on a whiteboard. Maybe you stop looking for "workers with cloud experience" and start looking for "workers that have great system administration skills who we'll train to use the specific 'cloud' thingy we're using this month." After all, what these job posts that demand a "hit the ground running" candidate fail to realize is that they have to train the new employee in the operations and peculiarities unique to their business anyway.
Pay a decent wage and write realistic job applications and give everyone who applies in earnest a fair shake and you might not have so much "difficulty finding quality talent."
I recently found the answer to this. During the great recession all companies down-sized to deal with the contracting economy. This also meant downsizing HR. HR also began receiving floods of applications for jobs due to high unemployment. HR's response to this was to implement a much more sophisticated ATS (Applicant Tracking System). These ATS's parse resumes and cover letters to do keyword matching to compute a scorecard. They also prefer a LinkedIn style resume. If you use certain fonts, formatting, etc. it won't be able to parse your resume and you will get a very low rating on your scorecard. It then takes all the scorecards and ranks them in descending order so that HR supposedly knows which applications to spend time looking at and disregard the rest. The problem is the ATS's don't work very well. You can search online to find out why. There are also applicants "gaming the system" to get artificially inflated scores. I also believe some of the ATS's are configured in such a way that would be considered unethical with ulterior motives. This is however all legal because the Department of Labor hasn't established rules beyond discrimination against a protected class of citizen.
When you are in business, you have a thing called a BUDGET.
Thanks for that I'm sure all of us and all your customers are such moron's we can't understand that companies work to a cost. The whole fucking point is the argument is that the cost is worth it. But then again you just prefer to argue by assertion, waving your superiority complex as absolute evidence that anyone with a different view point must just be stupid.
You're arguing with a baseless assertion. Go run a business and show us a balance sheet that proves your assertion. Why don't you include F-Bombs all over it to make it even more professional?
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Neither have I. Remember kids once upon a time there were commercials like this. You never trust anyone who's only in it for the money. That's our Free Enterprise Capitalism lesson for the day. You're welcome.
The selection is quite large, and it is very convenient. You just need to get over your misguided addiction to instant gratification, and be willing to work off a queue instead.
I'm actually completely fine with that. I am usually watching content after it's been out for awhile and buying games after they've hit the bargain bin. I've never felt compelled to have to have the latest and greatest thing as soon as it comes out. *shrug*
Facebook, please give us a way to opt out of these additional services. I'm not interested in a marketplace or these add-on services you keep adding. If you're going to add it, at least allow me to customize my experience to suit my preferences, k thx bai. I have actually started using Facebook a lot less. There is a game I really like that I found on Facebook but now because they keep making Facebook into this hulking albatross, I found a way to access it outside of Facebook. If it weren't for me wanting to keep somewhat in touch with old friends and family, I probably wouldn't use Facebook at all.
What do you do when things get difficult? when you're faced with something very unfamiliar, poorly written, opaque and massive that it needs to be reverse engineered to be understood... to the point that it may not be solvable?
Let me try to describe. In regard to dealing with a difficult problem: First, I do what I believe is brute force conscious graph traversal through all kinds of different approaches that are potentially heuristically applicable to the problem at hand. This occurs almost like what I've heard quantum computing described as. At each node, I simulate application of that solution to the problem domain. If nothing applies, I skip the node. If something partially applies I stored that information and continue onto other nodes. If the node wholly applies, I'm done. Solution found. If after exhaustively traversing this graph/mind map I do not find something using conscious brute force, I back away from the problem and do something else. During this time, my conscious mind is focused on the "something else" but it is as if a background process in my mind is still thinking about the unsolved problem. Sometimes, this background process will interrupt the foreground process and have a solution. Other times, after taking a break I come back to the original problem with more insight for some unknown reason.
In regard to poorly written or hard to grasp material, I keep re-reading the material. Each time more sticks. Eventually, my brain seems to memorize all the material and arrange the information in such a way that it makes sense conceptually in my mind. This is and has always been a very non-deterministic activity for me. I've noticed though once I get it, unless something changes, I know it forever and can recall the information very quickly. I also have at least partially an eidetic memory so that might have something to do with it too. *shrug*
Try solving a real hard problem listening to happy music (or the music you prefer). If the problem is cognitively taxing for you, notice any differences.
I don't need to experiment with other methods of doing the same thing I already do quite effectively.
You can teach children basic techniques used by artists or you can teach them music theory. You can have them do exercises until they can imitate other people's works.
Or you can teach cognitive tools that are actually relevant to creativity in general, as opposed to teaching orthogonal concepts from some specific domain. Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or you could just learn the obvious skill: meta thinking and hack your own mind. But even that takes...creativity... :P
The whole idea that you can teach creativity or improve it demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about what creativity is. Just look at anything that Thomas Kinkade did, there's little to no evidence of creativity in any of what he's famous for.
Sure you can, you just need some happy trees and a little bit of titanium white, it's easy peasy. ;) I've had friends try to imitate what Bob Ross did that seemed so easy. It's not easy and he didn't explain all the little nuances that he was doing from muscle memory... he probably didn't even really know consciously the little things he did.
I'm reminded of several John Cleese quotes on the subject:
"Creativity is not a skill, it's a state of mind, being in the open state."
Much as I like John Cleese, he's wrong on this point. Creativity is a skill, one that can be improved and can be taught, even taught to children.
You can teach children basic techniques used by artists or you can teach them music theory. You can have them do exercises until they can imitate other people's works. They can get far and create neat things that way but you can't teach them how to create truly ground-breaking, unique pieces of art or music this way. That is something that comes from somewhere else and it's highly subjective. Inspiration can strike at the strangest of times. Even mathematicians and scientists have bursts of creativity where they suddenly realize the answer to something. Where do you think "Eureka!" came from? I once worked with a highly creative software engineering team. We had a really talented DBA. One day he was faced with a very complex problem and he couldn't see the answer and grew frustrated with himself. After work, he went to mow his lawn and while not thinking about anything just mowing, it hit him what the answer was. The next day he came in an solved the problem like a boss. I've also had this sort of thing happen myself.
> Your coding is probably not taxing your problem solving skills.
Bingo. That's a much more eloquent way of saying what I just wrote a few posts below.
You're better than The Great Carnac! How would you know? I deal with some very advanced object modelling, graph theory and mathematics. I suppose you could say that perhaps I've been doing this long enough that my brain is attuned to dealing with this problem domain and therefore I no longer find it cognitively taxing. I am also a musician and can compose and play very advanced, colorful musical compositions and in many styles on several instruments but I no longer find it difficult. It was very difficult at one time in my life though. Now, I can do that without exerting much conscious thought so perhaps you might be correct in the sentiment of "not taxing your problem solving skills". *shrug*
You're fooling yourself if you think our life expectancies are not higher due to the trappings of civilization. Food production, shelter, medicine, sanitation practices, and less violence from our human peers are all huge impacts. Take a modern human out of all of this and put them in a "natural" environment and their evolved genes will not provide the same benefits. They'd have to bootstrap all that social knowledge through many generations of savage living and untimely deaths all over again...
Agriculture and making food perish more slowly, sure. Shelter... eh, I'd like to see statistics about the effect of "advanced shelters" on life expectancy. Medicine, as I said we conquered our natural predators which includes micro-organisms (think vaccinations). That had a huge effect on life expectancy. Sanitation, would like to see how significant this has been on life expectancy. I'm sure it had some impact but if we threw it on the pie chart of contributing factors, it's probably a sliver. "Less violence", I'd like to see the evidence of that. We haven't given up war yet. We are still fighting over religion quite furiously. I'm speaking of the human race in general not just so-called "first world countries".
Some of the things you're referring to don't have as much impact on individual life expectancy as you might think. They are more for allowing for larger population growth by increasing the supply of things. It would be wise to differentiate between the two things because they are two very different things.
Yeah, but as we stopped living like wild animals, we started living a lot longer.
We live a lot longer because of the random genetic mutation that enabled our higher cognitive functions that allowed us to out-smart our natural predators not because we are more resilient against our natural environment.
This is probably some algorithm that a developer came up with when the OutOfDiskSpaceException gets thrown. They probably took a WAG at what it ought to do and this is what they came up with. It reclaims the least important disk space usage to allocate space for new usage. If the Product Owner cared about this scenario, they should have made better acceptance criteria.
When I'm coding, high energy music is what gets my creative juices flowing. There is more evidence to suggest that what is related to creativity is how much stress you are under. The closer you are are to "fight or flight response" the more resources are being taken away from the cognitive processes that give rise to creativity. I'm reminded of several John Cleese quotes on the subject:
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
"Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake."
"Creativity is not a skill, it's a state of mind, being in the open state."
We are not in open states when we are stressed. Perhaps for some "happy music", whatever that means, helps with getting "into the zone". Just find whatever it is that gets you in the zone and practice mindfulness about getting into that zone and staying there as long as you can.
Oh I dunno... I'd actually be concerned if it made it far enough into your body that the lymphatic system got involved at all...
You know what's remarkable to me? We are relatives of Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Once upon a time we were out in the wild eating rancid raw meat and drinking from contaminated water sources on a regular basis much the same as other animals. From an evolutionary standpoint, we evolved to be able to deal with a lot of impurities being filtered out as a matter of survival. Now granted, we do see evidence that at some point we have lost some of our ability to do this. For example, our appendixes no longer work and I believe that was the means by which we used to be able to break down and digest bones.
We live in a time where large parts of our society do not realize that we are animals and when we were more primitive we were very much like other animals. I'm sure when we were more like Chimpanzees and Bonobos we scratched our butts and flung poop at each other. It's as if our delusional society thinks everything ought to be sparkling pristine clean and completely pure when there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that is not a natural state in the universe. It's completely irrational.
Biggest racket since religion
Amen
The question is : does it have a significant impact on biological activity of human at those level, and is it below or above the legally set quantity ?
Well, that would require a more deeper analysis into the effectiveness of the human lymphatic system to remove impurities from the body and the results might be... less sensationalist...
I bet most of the water we drink is contaminated by dust too! We should put environment protections in place against the dust epidemic!
I'd like to get out of the terms of my mortgage agreement too. Suck it Comcast. Remember corporations are people. That's how you slime bags wanted it. Enjoy!
Update your resume *every single day*, by at least a few lines of text, even if you're just rotating among 5 or so resumes, so that the resume search engines report it as significantly modified and "fresh".
This presumes you have a LinkedIn profile. From what I understand, your chances decrease around 17% if you don't have one. IMHO, that's discrimination. It's almost Orwellian. The good news is when there are more jobs than applicants again, this will change.
The problem is HR is blamed when someone else makes a poor hiring decision and needs to fire of if they quit to find a job that pays better. So they are trying to reduce this by adding mediocre workers who fit the job description rather than great or bad employees.
Translation: when the business isn't successful, the C suite needs a scapegoat for their failure to be able to run the business adequately.
Job ad bullet points are used as filters and do a great job (ha!) of filtering out all of the ideal candidates in favor of the ones that will gladly lie about their skill sets yet can't write anything more trivial than strcpy() on a whiteboard. Maybe you stop looking for "workers with cloud experience" and start looking for "workers that have great system administration skills who we'll train to use the specific 'cloud' thingy we're using this month." After all, what these job posts that demand a "hit the ground running" candidate fail to realize is that they have to train the new employee in the operations and peculiarities unique to their business anyway.
This, sooooo much this!
HR is the real problem here and they need to be fired.
Read my post above. Do a Google search for "Evil HR ATS". There are actually online services you can use that can compute a score for your resume and cover letter. You can actually use this to inflate your score just by word-smithing the right keywords in. The whole system is broke.
"89 percent of hiring managers report difficulty in finding qualified talent for open source roles" When your job ad demands 7-10 years of experience in a thing that isn't even 10 years old then yeah, you might have some difficulty "finding quality talent" because you're being ridiculous. Job ad bullet points are used as filters and do a great job (ha!) of filtering out all of the ideal candidates in favor of the ones that will gladly lie about their skill sets yet can't write anything more trivial than strcpy() on a whiteboard. Maybe you stop looking for "workers with cloud experience" and start looking for "workers that have great system administration skills who we'll train to use the specific 'cloud' thingy we're using this month." After all, what these job posts that demand a "hit the ground running" candidate fail to realize is that they have to train the new employee in the operations and peculiarities unique to their business anyway. Pay a decent wage and write realistic job applications and give everyone who applies in earnest a fair shake and you might not have so much "difficulty finding quality talent."
I recently found the answer to this. During the great recession all companies down-sized to deal with the contracting economy. This also meant downsizing HR. HR also began receiving floods of applications for jobs due to high unemployment. HR's response to this was to implement a much more sophisticated ATS (Applicant Tracking System). These ATS's parse resumes and cover letters to do keyword matching to compute a scorecard. They also prefer a LinkedIn style resume. If you use certain fonts, formatting, etc. it won't be able to parse your resume and you will get a very low rating on your scorecard. It then takes all the scorecards and ranks them in descending order so that HR supposedly knows which applications to spend time looking at and disregard the rest. The problem is the ATS's don't work very well. You can search online to find out why. There are also applicants "gaming the system" to get artificially inflated scores. I also believe some of the ATS's are configured in such a way that would be considered unethical with ulterior motives. This is however all legal because the Department of Labor hasn't established rules beyond discrimination against a protected class of citizen.
The manufacturer of the IoT device? Don't want to be responsible for security? Don't include it in your product!
Looking out my window while working
When you are in business, you have a thing called a BUDGET.
Thanks for that I'm sure all of us and all your customers are such moron's we can't understand that companies work to a cost. The whole fucking point is the argument is that the cost is worth it. But then again you just prefer to argue by assertion, waving your superiority complex as absolute evidence that anyone with a different view point must just be stupid.
You're arguing with a baseless assertion. Go run a business and show us a balance sheet that proves your assertion. Why don't you include F-Bombs all over it to make it even more professional?