Take a vacation to job search. I guarantee you'll find a job with much better conditions. It's pretty easy to get the sense of work hours during an interview as well.
The reason bad work conditions exist is because people like yourself put up with them. You could also try forming a union but that's riskier than quitting.
This "nearness to Asia" theory of economic prosperity seems fairly unique. Have you any statistics that support this idea? Why has the rest of the American West coast not been similarly affected? Sure, the coasts are generally more prosperous than the rest of America, but California, Florida and New York have the greatest concentrations of wealth in the U.S.. The Asian influence in New York is especially pronounced but that example goes directly against your theory.
So more along the lines of Star Citizen or chapter subscription games like Walking Dead or Sin Episodes? The problem with working on a game incrementally is that players won't replay the same content over and over again unless it's PvP. That's probably why all subscription based games are mmo or episodic. We'll see if Star Citizen proves successful using a rather unique funding strategy.
Astronomy and cosmology both apply to his comment. And yes, some economists are better at "sciencing" than others, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a scientific discipline. It just points to the fact that it's an immature one.
Great comment! Socialism may not be the only our best solution though. Simply believing in the power of boycotts, the sharing economy and collective bargaining, within a capitalist society, could be enough to fix the situation. Democratize the economy.
You're referring to the scientific method, which is defined as: "The process of the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypotheses), deriving predictions from them as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions." That last bit about empirical observations is important.
Maybe there doesn't need to be a top. Distributed decision making is viable, especially in this age of information. There's also this persistent belief in society that people dealing in higher levels of abstraction, such as managers and executives, should get a bigger share of the pie. Why?
I think the purpose of the report is to get people questioning their basic assumptions of how society should be organized after the reality of finite resources is recognized. Are you doing that, or trying to not think about it?
Can you elaborate on how came to decide that the civil rights victory against Jim Crow was about something other than treating people differently because of characteristics they were born with?
You're attempting to throw away a really useful tool provided by capitalism to effect social and political change. And why do that?
However if the attacker had also been from the USA, he would have brought a gun to the gun fight.
You also have to wonder about the state of mind and mental faculties of someone who would attempt to break into a home with a gun pointed at them and being verbally told that they will be shot.
Ah, I think I understand where we misunderstood each other now. You think the AC was asserting that someone needed to be able to build a compiler to use the programming language it compiles. I think AC was asserting that someone needs to understand how their code is compiled to make good use of the language. So I'm comparing their statement to how a welder works, and you're comparing their statement to how to build a welder.
Do you weld? I've welded and have friends who do it professionally. They do know wire speeds, gas mixes, material impedance, heat dissipation, etc. Literally the first thing they taught me in welding class was how the various welders we'd be using, worked.
I'm glad to hear that you agree. I was responding to the claim that there was no cost associated with the go to market fast approach. There are real costs but inexperienced executives don't know about them.
My company is dealing with the result of this mentality right now. We released the web app to the customer without performance testing and doing several majorly inefficient things to meet deadlines. Once real load was put on the application by users with non-ideal hardware and browsers, the app was infuriatingly slow. Suddenly our standard sub-40 hour workweek became a 50+ hour workweek for months while we fixed all the inefficient code and design issues.
So, while you're right that getting to market and optimizing later is the correct way to go, there's a baseline level of performance the customer will demand and you must meet their expectations or you've lost your chance to win in the market. The customers put up with the issues though, primarily because we have an amazing vendor lock-in strategy, but most of our team quit as a result of the long hours fixing everything and had been telling management over and over that we needed to ensure baseline performance expectations were met.
Btw, this wasn't the first time I've been on a team that experienced this. Last time we did not have a vendor lock-in strategy and the product died a quick death after spending millions of dollars on R&D.
I doubt world class welders lack understanding of how their tools work; not understanding how a tool works results in mistakes or narrow use of the tool. What do they do when their tool breaks down or degrades in performance? Buy another one? Hire a welder tech? What if they want to weld something that doesn't perfectly match how they were taught to use the tool or the tool's ideal use?
I've interviewed at some big tech companies and have been surprised by how little my interviewers understand the execution of their code. They rely on the big-o rule of thumb as if it's gospel and they assume computer memory is an inexhaustible resource. Why would this be bad? Because they use hash tables for everything without a clue about the drawbacks of constantly doing memory lookups.
They were referring to how much our whole society spends on healthcare, which is about a third of our GDP; roughly $7 trillion.
In regards to your comment about executive compensation, you are right that it would have a small impact per person, but we're talking about putting together a measly $7k/year basic income so every bit helps.
What's funny is that you've discovered exactly why executives get so much money; they nickel and dime their workforce who don't care because the amounts are small per person but huge in aggregate.
How small do companies need to be to not try to make money or exploit people?
I think advertising and user profiling are inevitable in a free market internet, because when a business can turn a profit while charging nothing for a service, they will beat any competitor who charges for their services. This is a fundamental flaw with our commercialized internet that needs to be corrected. I however think that technology can solve the problem.
Steve Jobs wanted Intel CPUs in his iPhone but his engineers did not. Anyone who's familiar with the differences between ARM and x86 would know that an Intel powered smartphone was not a good idea.
Intel tried to enter the smartphone market five years ago and failed due to glitches, power consumption and incompatibility with existing apps. If Steve Jobs had gotten his way, the smartphone revolution may never have happened.
I think your theory of movie critics is missing something important because Bright is a movie that really did try something novel, fresh, and timely. If the movie critics are bored of repetition then they would have loved it. Most likely that missing component has something to do with Bright being blunt in its political messaging while subtle in character development. Basically it was not a refined movie experience.
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Take a vacation to job search. I guarantee you'll find a job with much better conditions. It's pretty easy to get the sense of work hours during an interview as well.
The reason bad work conditions exist is because people like yourself put up with them. You could also try forming a union but that's riskier than quitting.
This "nearness to Asia" theory of economic prosperity seems fairly unique. Have you any statistics that support this idea? Why has the rest of the American West coast not been similarly affected? Sure, the coasts are generally more prosperous than the rest of America, but California, Florida and New York have the greatest concentrations of wealth in the U.S.. The Asian influence in New York is especially pronounced but that example goes directly against your theory.
So more along the lines of Star Citizen or chapter subscription games like Walking Dead or Sin Episodes? The problem with working on a game incrementally is that players won't replay the same content over and over again unless it's PvP. That's probably why all subscription based games are mmo or episodic. We'll see if Star Citizen proves successful using a rather unique funding strategy.
So do you want a subscription to Origin Access or GameFly?
Even a simpler analogy: people buy bottled water.
https://listverse.com/2015/06/...
Astronomy and cosmology both apply to his comment. And yes, some economists are better at "sciencing" than others, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a scientific discipline. It just points to the fact that it's an immature one.
Great comment! Socialism may not be the only our best solution though. Simply believing in the power of boycotts, the sharing economy and collective bargaining, within a capitalist society, could be enough to fix the situation. Democratize the economy.
What was that about the EU lowering their emissions?
http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/0...
You're referring to the scientific method, which is defined as: "The process of the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypotheses), deriving predictions from them as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions." That last bit about empirical observations is important.
Maybe there doesn't need to be a top. Distributed decision making is viable, especially in this age of information. There's also this persistent belief in society that people dealing in higher levels of abstraction, such as managers and executives, should get a bigger share of the pie. Why?
I think the purpose of the report is to get people questioning their basic assumptions of how society should be organized after the reality of finite resources is recognized. Are you doing that, or trying to not think about it?
Can you elaborate on how came to decide that the civil rights victory against Jim Crow was about something other than treating people differently because of characteristics they were born with?
You're attempting to throw away a really useful tool provided by capitalism to effect social and political change. And why do that?
However if the attacker had also been from the USA, he would have brought a gun to the gun fight.
You also have to wonder about the state of mind and mental faculties of someone who would attempt to break into a home with a gun pointed at them and being verbally told that they will be shot.
Great point! Software geeks seem to have more empathy for automated systems and gadgets than people.
Ah, I think I understand where we misunderstood each other now. You think the AC was asserting that someone needed to be able to build a compiler to use the programming language it compiles. I think AC was asserting that someone needs to understand how their code is compiled to make good use of the language. So I'm comparing their statement to how a welder works, and you're comparing their statement to how to build a welder.
Do you weld? I've welded and have friends who do it professionally. They do know wire speeds, gas mixes, material impedance, heat dissipation, etc. Literally the first thing they taught me in welding class was how the various welders we'd be using, worked.
I'm glad to hear that you agree. I was responding to the claim that there was no cost associated with the go to market fast approach. There are real costs but inexperienced executives don't know about them.
My company is dealing with the result of this mentality right now. We released the web app to the customer without performance testing and doing several majorly inefficient things to meet deadlines. Once real load was put on the application by users with non-ideal hardware and browsers, the app was infuriatingly slow. Suddenly our standard sub-40 hour workweek became a 50+ hour workweek for months while we fixed all the inefficient code and design issues.
So, while you're right that getting to market and optimizing later is the correct way to go, there's a baseline level of performance the customer will demand and you must meet their expectations or you've lost your chance to win in the market. The customers put up with the issues though, primarily because we have an amazing vendor lock-in strategy, but most of our team quit as a result of the long hours fixing everything and had been telling management over and over that we needed to ensure baseline performance expectations were met.
Btw, this wasn't the first time I've been on a team that experienced this. Last time we did not have a vendor lock-in strategy and the product died a quick death after spending millions of dollars on R&D.
I doubt world class welders lack understanding of how their tools work; not understanding how a tool works results in mistakes or narrow use of the tool. What do they do when their tool breaks down or degrades in performance? Buy another one? Hire a welder tech? What if they want to weld something that doesn't perfectly match how they were taught to use the tool or the tool's ideal use?
I've interviewed at some big tech companies and have been surprised by how little my interviewers understand the execution of their code. They rely on the big-o rule of thumb as if it's gospel and they assume computer memory is an inexhaustible resource. Why would this be bad? Because they use hash tables for everything without a clue about the drawbacks of constantly doing memory lookups.
They were referring to how much our whole society spends on healthcare, which is about a third of our GDP; roughly $7 trillion.
In regards to your comment about executive compensation, you are right that it would have a small impact per person, but we're talking about putting together a measly $7k/year basic income so every bit helps.
What's funny is that you've discovered exactly why executives get so much money; they nickel and dime their workforce who don't care because the amounts are small per person but huge in aggregate.
How small do companies need to be to not try to make money or exploit people?
I think advertising and user profiling are inevitable in a free market internet, because when a business can turn a profit while charging nothing for a service, they will beat any competitor who charges for their services. This is a fundamental flaw with our commercialized internet that needs to be corrected. I however think that technology can solve the problem.
Steve Jobs wanted Intel CPUs in his iPhone but his engineers did not. Anyone who's familiar with the differences between ARM and x86 would know that an Intel powered smartphone was not a good idea.
Intel tried to enter the smartphone market five years ago and failed due to glitches, power consumption and incompatibility with existing apps. If Steve Jobs had gotten his way, the smartphone revolution may never have happened.
At least Alexa and Google support some third party note and list apps. Not necessarily the same ones though :face palm:
I think your theory of movie critics is missing something important because Bright is a movie that really did try something novel, fresh, and timely. If the movie critics are bored of repetition then they would have loved it. Most likely that missing component has something to do with Bright being blunt in its political messaging while subtle in character development. Basically it was not a refined movie experience.
So, is copyright infringement victimless? That seems to be what you're implying...