In the Cincinnati area it is very difficult to find IT talent. You can find people who went to school for programming, and/or who have been writing C# their whole life but most are not good by any stretch of the imagination (they actually do more harm than good). It is especially hard to find people for database work--BI, DBA, report writer. You can often settle for report writers or use offshore but that work always needs revisited/fixed.
The weather is decent most of the year, the houses for people in our line of work are cheap, and there is no shortage of jobs or houses in nice areas. All of Ohio is in need actually. Where I live I can actually bike to thousands of jobs safely, and my house in a nice-ish neighborhood, cost me less than $120k.
Instead of having 10 developers and one architect you would have 6 architects and 4 developers (not "senior developers"). And yes...coding is a commodity, something that can be done by third world developers if they are handed a clean, comprehensive design wrapped around the requirements. People are going to get sick of paying 10 100k dollar a year code monkeys that fuck up everything they touch. We have tried outsourcing/offshoring everything (with sloppy requirements hoping for the best because it seemed cheaper) and that train-wreck didn't work.
Main story line of X files was awesome (shadow group including the joint chiefs who killed JFK for wasting everyone's career...makes more sense than anything I have ever heard..with a smattering of ridiculous urban legends to deflect the seriousness of their theory/revelation...carried to an alien invasion end for sheer profit).
It has been known for a century that you cannot target smart people (most popular shows bore the absolute hell out of me). That is why state school systems were created with the purpose of standardizing as much of the population as possible so goods could be targeted and produced in massive quantities with less risk. We see every tree in the forest through the lens of the industrial revolution.
I think they are just used to the model where people ravenously jump on a new show and stay glued to it until it dies. It doesn't work like that anymore. I consume when I want to and when I have time. The show will be there forever...what is the rush? There is nothing wrong with all of this content...it will sit around and people will steadily consume it. I know people who will not watch a popular show (Walking Dead) util it is over! People like to binge watch without commercials on their favorite streaming service. How is this not completely obvious?
That is exactly what tyranny is. We have come to associate the word tyrant with something negative. We CAN elect a tyrant to clean house if we want...or to wage war.
I think we need a tyrant every now and again. They can still be removed by the people and we would get a break from congress for a while. Actually, congress would still have a role...but their only influence would be on merit alone.
What "moral values" would that be? Destroying a company that a lot of people worked hard to build, just in order to feed his own ego? Of course, if he owns the company, it's his right to destroy it. That doesn't make it a moral thing to do.
He is not worthy. I see founders and controlling Factors as chieftains, responsible for the people they have brought into their fold. Someone who starts a company and destroys it is a piece of shit.
The controlling Factors should control the allocation of profits. However they have a responsibility to re-invest the money. Controlling Factors often re-invest the money and make more opportunity and wealth for many. Simple fact.
Nature doesn't give one fuck about your "values." Salaries (economies) are a direct representation of the laws of nature. Don't like it? You are free to leave. Poking at it never goes well.
Dual boot? Are you like 80? Run a VM. On modern hardware you can easily run two OSes at once with undetectable performance hit. Spend a little extra on a SSD or extra spindles and RAM and you have no performance hit and you can easily switch back and forth.
I'm more concerned about the loss of features relating to the Start/Search. When I type "vi" I should see visual studio highlighted so I can smack ENTER and be on my way....but no, this feature no longer works! I have to click All Apps and manually scroll down (keyboard doesnt jump you to a certain alphabet). WTH?
Nah...I just wanted my Windows 10 so I hit express. Probably the first time in my life. If I need locked-down privacy I would not be carrying out my activities on a Windows machine.
The scientists say that more studies need to be done on this subject,
I wish they would study a way to convert the damn gas into something that is not debatable instead of running around getting everyone worked up so they can do more studies.
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I agree, sentient beings are a danger to society.
In the Cincinnati area it is very difficult to find IT talent. You can find people who went to school for programming, and/or who have been writing C# their whole life but most are not good by any stretch of the imagination (they actually do more harm than good). It is especially hard to find people for database work--BI, DBA, report writer. You can often settle for report writers or use offshore but that work always needs revisited/fixed.
The weather is decent most of the year, the houses for people in our line of work are cheap, and there is no shortage of jobs or houses in nice areas. All of Ohio is in need actually. Where I live I can actually bike to thousands of jobs safely, and my house in a nice-ish neighborhood, cost me less than $120k.
Dell has a bunch of them.
No one is doing any serious gaming on a tablet.
No, it was pixel dust.
Instead of having 10 developers and one architect you would have 6 architects and 4 developers (not "senior developers"). And yes...coding is a commodity, something that can be done by third world developers if they are handed a clean, comprehensive design wrapped around the requirements. People are going to get sick of paying 10 100k dollar a year code monkeys that fuck up everything they touch. We have tried outsourcing/offshoring everything (with sloppy requirements hoping for the best because it seemed cheaper) and that train-wreck didn't work.
Funny...this just happened at work.
Main story line of X files was awesome (shadow group including the joint chiefs who killed JFK for wasting everyone's career...makes more sense than anything I have ever heard..with a smattering of ridiculous urban legends to deflect the seriousness of their theory/revelation...carried to an alien invasion end for sheer profit).
Watch Caprica before BSG.
Homeland. Boring. Sons of Anarchy. Boring.
I have been trying to get through the first episode of firefly for a year. Please help me understand how this is captivating scifi.
It has been known for a century that you cannot target smart people (most popular shows bore the absolute hell out of me). That is why state school systems were created with the purpose of standardizing as much of the population as possible so goods could be targeted and produced in massive quantities with less risk. We see every tree in the forest through the lens of the industrial revolution.
I think they are just used to the model where people ravenously jump on a new show and stay glued to it until it dies. It doesn't work like that anymore. I consume when I want to and when I have time. The show will be there forever...what is the rush? There is nothing wrong with all of this content...it will sit around and people will steadily consume it. I know people who will not watch a popular show (Walking Dead) util it is over! People like to binge watch without commercials on their favorite streaming service. How is this not completely obvious?
"the company was planning an IPO in London that would have taken as much as $200 million from investors"
There...fixed that for ya.
...there is competition? Please point it out. I wouldn't let Android near my desktop. Os(Linu)X is fucking joke that will be abandoned. Please.
That is exactly what tyranny is. We have come to associate the word tyrant with something negative. We CAN elect a tyrant to clean house if we want...or to wage war.
I think we need a tyrant every now and again. They can still be removed by the people and we would get a break from congress for a while. Actually, congress would still have a role...but their only influence would be on merit alone.
I think the shark was just jumped.
What "moral values" would that be? Destroying a company that a lot of people worked hard to build, just in order to feed his own ego? Of course, if he owns the company, it's his right to destroy it. That doesn't make it a moral thing to do.
He is not worthy. I see founders and controlling Factors as chieftains, responsible for the people they have brought into their fold. Someone who starts a company and destroys it is a piece of shit.
The controlling Factors should control the allocation of profits. However they have a responsibility to re-invest the money. Controlling Factors often re-invest the money and make more opportunity and wealth for many. Simple fact.
Nature doesn't give one fuck about your "values." Salaries (economies) are a direct representation of the laws of nature. Don't like it? You are free to leave. Poking at it never goes well.
Dual boot? Are you like 80? Run a VM. On modern hardware you can easily run two OSes at once with undetectable performance hit. Spend a little extra on a SSD or extra spindles and RAM and you have no performance hit and you can easily switch back and forth.
I'm more concerned about the loss of features relating to the Start/Search. When I type "vi" I should see visual studio highlighted so I can smack ENTER and be on my way....but no, this feature no longer works! I have to click All Apps and manually scroll down (keyboard doesnt jump you to a certain alphabet). WTH?
Nah...I just wanted my Windows 10 so I hit express. Probably the first time in my life. If I need locked-down privacy I would not be carrying out my activities on a Windows machine.
The scientists say that more studies need to be done on this subject,
I wish they would study a way to convert the damn gas into something that is not debatable instead of running around getting everyone worked up so they can do more studies.
Complicated? It is a number line.