+1 for participation rate. I agree. Participation rate might be even lower for them since there are fewer dealers so it is more inconvenient. How about treating owners as somewhat intelligent? They could post a youtube video that shows you what it should look like and say: "if yours doesn't look like this please come in for a complementary expection and (whatever the equivalent is) oil change." I'm sure their is liability issues as the owner that thought they were smart enough to do self inspection would still blame them for trusting them to check if there were 2 nuts not 1 attached or whatever but still. Drivers ed still teaches (like people ever do) that you should do a basic vehicle inspection each time before driving right?
No maybe just tightening a few nuts or whatever. They might have some slack manufacturing compacity so the recall could be ~free to them (already paying someone full time but don't have enough work to keep them busy, plus maybe small fraction of people bother). But regardless; it is a good policy. Especially with such a technology driven device. It isn't just selling more cars to people, what about a new $10k quick charge battery or charger? I'm guessing the opportunities for follow on sales are larger when the owner owns both the "gas station" and a very expensive gas tank.
Desktop/laptops are where you get things done. IMO phones and tablets are toys. You can play simple games, check your email, bring your porn with you to the bathroom etc. But the email and phone calls that are work related are about stuff that, guess what, 90% of people need to go to their (mostly Windows) PC to do.
There are exceptions of course but most people do stuff other than communicating all day. Phones are horrible for anything requiring screen space, processing power etc. Phones might have the processing power but the apps that they run are still living in the 90's vs their PC equivalents.
I went to Waterloo. The selling point was that your degree would take you about 8 months longer to get but during your coop you'd earn money and probably be pretty close to debt free when you graduated. The school would help you find positions (job boards only coops can apply to, counselors to help you (not sure what kind of counseling they could give as, pretty much by definition they are an expert in a field that you probably aren't looking to work in). They also pushed that you'd end up ahead because you'd have experience and might get hired by one of your coop placements.
I didn't go the coop route and did find it hard to find any sort of work requiring my skills till I was finished my 3rd year (then did RAs, TAs and such). But I guess that might be the same for coops since a lot of employers are like mine and don't want to waste time with someone that only has their first year done. Similarly getting a non-academic job in my field was hard for me too for about 8 months or so out of school but once I got one I haven't ever been unemployed since and typically if I want to change jobs have several competing options within a few weeks of looking. So I guess: coop forces you to look, gives you access to pool of jobs that the school is trying really hard to scale with the number of coop students and might mean you graduate with the "untested in the market" problem already dusted off of you.
I had a friend in university that admitted herself that she was an affirmative action dream. She came from out of province (not sure if technically an affirmative action issue more of a financial one as out of province tuition is about 2-3x "normal" tuition), was of Pakistani origin and a women. 3 checkboxes in one. Her marks sucked and it took her about 6 years to graduate (though she did end up with dual majors). Time for those policies to go away IMO. For women, the battle is won for education at least if not yet for salary equality, minorities at least in Canada, are over represented in post secondary education, again the battle is won.
Not free and good (for student) salary, something like $25/hr. The way it is potentially exploitative though mutually beneficial too: my company insists on at least a 1 yr coop and 3rd or 4th year student. That typically means we are usually their last employer before graduating and often their only coop experience. I suspect when it comes time to hire them on full time that that kind of pegs their salary expectations somewhat low. Ie going from 25 -> $30/hr sounds like a good deal but is kind of low ball (in my experience anyways). The benefit to the student: they don't have to look for a new coop every 4mths and they have a high chance of getting an offer of a job afterwards. Might knock 10k off your starting salary but removes a lot of stress and the company is otherwise good (good benefits flexible hours, because we hire so many new grads all younger 20-30 somethings etc).
Somewhat wishful thinking. My work for example hires 90% of our employees fresh out of school often after having done a 1 year coop placement with us at some point in their schooling. No schooling, no coop, no coop no hire, or at least very very unlikely. I imagine it is like that at a lot of companies. You put a job posting up and you have at least 10X the applications as the positions, you need a quick way to narrow things down. So: no degree, there goes a few, typo in the resume or too long/short there goes a couple more. Etc. Your degree exists to help prevent you from getting cut out of the stack before even getting an interview.
Oddly enough though, I guess people can kind of figure it out in the interview if you are too much BS, but I have a masters and have done several professional jobs (in different fields) none of which have asked me for my transcript and other form of proof that I actually am "qualified". It is enough to make you wonder if you should just drop out after second year and go right to work. Everyone expects a fresh out of school programmer to have some pretty crappy code for a year or so until code reviewers beat good practices into them anyways so... Probably could have made another 150k or so in my lifetime if I'd known ahead of time. Oh well, what would life be without nuclear physics and complex analysis?
This is a Canadian study. I'm Canadian and the university experience I had both white and male were the minority (and vastly so in some fields: humanities women, math and CS asians). More women graduate than men. More women than men work in professional jobs. Asians make more than whites on average (ever wonder why they aren't included in affirmative action check boxes in most schools?)
Agreed having a degree doesn't equal qualified. Switching jobs out of your field and taking something else for example. Study music because you like it but then end up working as a social worker instead. Etc. The other thing is fields that cross education levels like IT and programming. I have a masters degree (and got it for my amusement not for any desire to use it for a job qualification) but have worked at places were my colleagues only had college. It didn't really matter, whoever was the more experienced or otherwise better code monkey was more senior regardless of education.
There's an order of magnitude (at least) difference in funding for research on the pro-warming vs against. Hopefully you are right and however disproved man made climate change would win a Nobel prize and be rewarded as a great scientist etc. I'm more synical though. Al Gore got the nobel for a pro warming position. Would the Nobel committee be willing to give someone a prize for doing something they already rewarded on the other side? If so I don't think it could be a peace prize because presumably if nothing is happening then you aren't warning governments about impending doom/preventing resource wars.
The other thing is say the climate is changing but not due (or at least not largely do) to human activity. I could take A LOT more effort to get enough data to decouple things vs the pro side which (not exclusively for sure but often) just says "hey look the last 10 years where hotter than the 10 before it, ipso facto humans". I think it is more scary to them that it could possibly not be human activity and we could be doomed no matter what we do. Easier to blame it on SUVs and become vegan to lower your carbon foot print so you can feel like you are doing something.
The cost (hopefully) of up front doing the obvious validation means you don't need a lot of manual checking and/or you save a lot of back and forth getting the right data. I think that is why it is linked: the whole point of digitizing isn't to get rid of the paper it is to automatize.
Unless they have to pay companies aren't going to care how many tanks are needed to guard and/or kill the competition. Heck armies use resources too driving up the price/profit.
No I don't think it will be simple I just don't think we are special. We panic/fear because:
a) someone isn't nice to us b) someone dies from a disease c) some nutjob kills a few people in a theater d) something happens causing refugees
While all aren't good things none of them are new. As they say in Iran Shite happens.
Well food prices also increase because developing nations are drastically increasing their meat use which requires a lot of crops to go into feeding pigs/chickens/cows. Which I'm okay with because everyone should get to enjoy barbecued animal carcass.
But I agree ethanol is one of the dumbest ideas out there. If you get ethanol as a biproduct of a process you already need to do and use that for fuel, okay. But to turn food land into gas land is crazy. Especially if Billy-Bob needs to drive his diesel all over the place to tend to the crop and spray fertilizer (often generated via fossil fuels). It further leads to a mono-culture which likely screws with things like bees (especially if the seed is Monsanto terminator crops where the pollen has been specifically engineered to be screwed up so you can't replant it) and moves prices so that pretty much everything you by in the store has corn or soy in it. No thanks.
Some global warming might be good for people. Our mean latitude seems to be around 30 degrees but it looks like to me there is a lot more land at higher latitudes which would then become more comfortable.: http://www.themarysue.com/worl.... Will populations need to move away from the current coasts and maybe further away from the tropics, maybe. But people migrate, always have always will.
Exactly. Also conflict of interest. If being pro-warming means 10M in funding this year and being anti means 1M you can magically forget things. There are so many variables that you can easily nudge things this way and that. For example are the measurement sites evenly distributed over the earth? if not how much weight do you assign to each point, where are the borders at geographical points, square grids etc?
I worked at a genetics lab and pretty much everything they did was to "cure cancer". I want to make a glow in the dark bug, er I mean make a tool to identify tumor cells. I want to figure out why people have a hair line, er I mean learn how to control stem cells to cure cancer etc. The "science" goes were the money is. (generally speaking where the money is is also where the good publication opportunities are too, as well as the graduates with the best creds to enter post grad positions).
But it matters where you measure too. Did they measure at the same location? Did did those locations on average urbanize and pave their roads, divert their water etc? I'm very suspicious of any claims to have accuracy of a hundredth of a degree over that time period.
They could have done something like put any data older than a month or larger than 1TB a month onto tape. Sure it is unlimited but you'll have to wait a couple hours to see any of it again. That would probably change usage patterns. My suspicion is a large if not majority of the stuff was pirated or at least backups of people's media collection. Your usage patterns would change a lot I think if the next time you want to watch Titanic you had to wait 3hrs to get it back from tape. You'd probably just re-download it from somewhere else.
Hierarchical storage would be the best way to push of "abusers" I think. People's hoarding tendencies might magically solve themselves should they make it very inconvenient, while those with "real" stuff (ie stuff they created that they can't just download again) wouldn't care that they might have to wait a few hours to get last years vacation pictures back.
" I don't have to worry or manage or delete old versions." I think that is just it. I was thinking about what I would do if unlimited was available to me (never was as far as I know in Canuckistan). I think usage patterns would change. As it is I download things, yeah sometimes entire seasons of a show at a time. As I watch I delete. But every once in a while I'll discover a show I didn't know was any good, download 300GB more etc, rinse and repeat.
I think if it was unlimited: I'd probably just make an "already watched" folder and just move things over to it when done. Ie I'd magically have an ever growing (at about 10GB a day given my viewing habits, and once things are 4k probably 40GB) pile of stuff that they'd have to store. I don't "need" to I just would because "I paid for it".
For those initially getting unlimited you might have say 1% that actually use > 1TB. But it will rapidly grow out of control as people discover the joys of throwing the delete key away. I also suspect that the changes to OneDrive in Win 10 were related to this: no longer seeing "tombstones" of files that are only online means effectively to manage your collection of backed up stuff I think you'd need at least as much storage locally as you have in the cloud so you could "see" the files you are moving around. That's my theory at least.
Probably need to nip it in the bud because it is only going to get worse. People will start streaming 4k (who haven't already), more cord cutters etc. It is only going to get worse for them.
It sucks to be a large user but I think it needs to be metered. They could have variable pricing based on time of day, heck when not "congested" they could just give it away making it defacto unlimited from say 10pm to 9am. But as a guy that downloads about 500GB a month: I get that it can't be free.
My guess is that forms code can actually be much more complicated. My work ~300k lines production and another 200k of tests.This is something that is basically a combination on SharePoint, GoogleDoc, and Live + support for some in house accounting products to "sync"/collaborate online. Anyways, about even 8 each over the last 7 years of UI and backend devs. So either you are using a lot of libraries, you are really that good, or CAD is much, much less complicated.
My guess some combination of 1 and 3. CAD basically things have to touch. Business rules: can be all over the place. Fill in lines 10-15, and 20 except if a non-profit and then only 12, except if you incorporated before 2008 in the UK or are a resident of New Zealand.... things are a lot less structured when it comes to forms I think and each different combination adds a branch that needs to be unit tested and opportunities for regressions that have to be tracked down and fixed every time you touch something.
Thought bubble of inventor: "sitting is bad for you but I don't want to stand, I know if I could only lie down all day..." I'd like a standing setup but stuck in a cubicle with desks too narrow to put anything on (and 3 monitors plus a couple days a week my laptop on the desk). But rarely if ever sit for more than an hour at a time. Between coffee, the corresponding washroom breaks, and eating 3 meals a day at work (usually coming to work after the gym so protein, then lunch in a couple hours, then snack a couple hours after that). Mah.
I say if you can't find an excuse to stand up every hour your job doesn't involve enough thinking for my tastes. I'm thinking about how I'm going to design a feature/test, what technology will solve a problem, business goals of what my feature should look like to the end user etc when I'm walking around for my coffee. It isn't wasted time, sitting at my desk trying to pound something out without stopping to think would be.
They said everything attached by magnets so I think it is B. But when is the last time you saw a metal mouse (at least if you aren't an Apple fanboy)? Probably paranoid but who wants a magnet that close to their computer/external drive and whatever gadgets you might chose to plugin?
For those that have offices a shelf with a spare pair of monitors and a KVM is a decent standing desk. A product manager at my office has that setup, has the bonus of when she gets antsy and sick sitting with the same view she can walk around her desk to the standing area for a while. They also put that shelf right next to her door which I assume would be useful when you need to quickly pop in and send out a few emails between meetings or what not. Something about the act of sitting tacks 5 min onto any quick email scan.
Also, I'm not sure how a mouse would work. Unless you have your sensitivity way up (and I'm not sure you can go this high) you often have to pick up the mouse and move it over to get more lateral space (3-4 monitor set up) to move the mouse all the way across screens. How does that work if the mouse is attached with magnets?
The other thing is I'm not certain that reclining with your arm wanting to go parallel with the ground will work when your keyboard/mouse is at ~45 degrees. You might not have to lift it but it is like holding your arm over your head the whole time. I can't see how that is going to be healthy. All sorts of little issues potentially too, I realize our bodies are capable of it but how much does your eyes like to be open and blinking for hours at a time while you are laying on your back? The muscles are adapted to be working directly with/against gravity for most of your waking hours. Buildings are designed that way too by the way: fans/heating ducts blowing straight down (now into your eyes) as are lights. A slightly reclining with foot rest chair would be great I think but reclining back into an almost horizontal position I think has way to many issues.
Could be the opposite bias too. "Normals" that didn't found a.com have an excuse and something to be thankful for: "Well I'm not autistic that is why, and at least I don't have a disease." I agree with you though most techies are "well adjusted" they might have a tendency towards "nerdy interests" but is that any worse than a musician that goes to India to learn to play "weird" instruments, or a lawyer that reads cases in a different subspeciality because they are interested in the law? People have things they are passionate about, whippedy shit. Not everyone is stuck doing a job they aren't interested in.
It depends how it manifests. My friends 13 yr old isn't great at school and his autism makes him very emotional and socially awkward. He doesn't really like music though, haven't heard him play for a few years so I suppose he could be getting good. But say that is the way he "succeeds" with his autism? It doesn't stop the socially awkward and emotional bits. He'd probably end up being a musical "genius" in the Kobain sense not in the Handel sense, ie not able to cope with the things that cope with it and dying because of it. He's as bad off as if he was born with no "special talent" for anything and instead had an IQ of say 80..
They probably were just assuming that no one had enough upload bandwidth to get to really large values quickly. I have (10Mbps upload) about 1MB/s reliably upload bandwith. It would take me close to 3 years to get to the 75TB they are claiming some had assuming I didn't upload anywhere else. I think they probably didn't count on anyone having say a symmetric 1Gbps connection.
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+1 for participation rate. I agree. Participation rate might be even lower for them since there are fewer dealers so it is more inconvenient. How about treating owners as somewhat intelligent? They could post a youtube video that shows you what it should look like and say: "if yours doesn't look like this please come in for a complementary expection and (whatever the equivalent is) oil change." I'm sure their is liability issues as the owner that thought they were smart enough to do self inspection would still blame them for trusting them to check if there were 2 nuts not 1 attached or whatever but still. Drivers ed still teaches (like people ever do) that you should do a basic vehicle inspection each time before driving right?
No maybe just tightening a few nuts or whatever. They might have some slack manufacturing compacity so the recall could be ~free to them (already paying someone full time but don't have enough work to keep them busy, plus maybe small fraction of people bother). But regardless; it is a good policy. Especially with such a technology driven device. It isn't just selling more cars to people, what about a new $10k quick charge battery or charger? I'm guessing the opportunities for follow on sales are larger when the owner owns both the "gas station" and a very expensive gas tank.
He did say useful though.
Desktop/laptops are where you get things done. IMO phones and tablets are toys. You can play simple games, check your email, bring your porn with you to the bathroom etc. But the email and phone calls that are work related are about stuff that, guess what, 90% of people need to go to their (mostly Windows) PC to do.
There are exceptions of course but most people do stuff other than communicating all day. Phones are horrible for anything requiring screen space, processing power etc. Phones might have the processing power but the apps that they run are still living in the 90's vs their PC equivalents.
I went to Waterloo. The selling point was that your degree would take you about 8 months longer to get but during your coop you'd earn money and probably be pretty close to debt free when you graduated. The school would help you find positions (job boards only coops can apply to, counselors to help you (not sure what kind of counseling they could give as, pretty much by definition they are an expert in a field that you probably aren't looking to work in). They also pushed that you'd end up ahead because you'd have experience and might get hired by one of your coop placements.
I didn't go the coop route and did find it hard to find any sort of work requiring my skills till I was finished my 3rd year (then did RAs, TAs and such). But I guess that might be the same for coops since a lot of employers are like mine and don't want to waste time with someone that only has their first year done. Similarly getting a non-academic job in my field was hard for me too for about 8 months or so out of school but once I got one I haven't ever been unemployed since and typically if I want to change jobs have several competing options within a few weeks of looking. So I guess: coop forces you to look, gives you access to pool of jobs that the school is trying really hard to scale with the number of coop students and might mean you graduate with the "untested in the market" problem already dusted off of you.
I had a friend in university that admitted herself that she was an affirmative action dream. She came from out of province (not sure if technically an affirmative action issue more of a financial one as out of province tuition is about 2-3x "normal" tuition), was of Pakistani origin and a women. 3 checkboxes in one. Her marks sucked and it took her about 6 years to graduate (though she did end up with dual majors). Time for those policies to go away IMO. For women, the battle is won for education at least if not yet for salary equality, minorities at least in Canada, are over represented in post secondary education, again the battle is won.
Not free and good (for student) salary, something like $25/hr. The way it is potentially exploitative though mutually beneficial too: my company insists on at least a 1 yr coop and 3rd or 4th year student. That typically means we are usually their last employer before graduating and often their only coop experience. I suspect when it comes time to hire them on full time that that kind of pegs their salary expectations somewhat low. Ie going from 25 -> $30/hr sounds like a good deal but is kind of low ball (in my experience anyways). The benefit to the student: they don't have to look for a new coop every 4mths and they have a high chance of getting an offer of a job afterwards. Might knock 10k off your starting salary but removes a lot of stress and the company is otherwise good (good benefits flexible hours, because we hire so many new grads all younger 20-30 somethings etc).
Somewhat wishful thinking. My work for example hires 90% of our employees fresh out of school often after having done a 1 year coop placement with us at some point in their schooling. No schooling, no coop, no coop no hire, or at least very very unlikely. I imagine it is like that at a lot of companies. You put a job posting up and you have at least 10X the applications as the positions, you need a quick way to narrow things down. So: no degree, there goes a few, typo in the resume or too long/short there goes a couple more. Etc. Your degree exists to help prevent you from getting cut out of the stack before even getting an interview.
Oddly enough though, I guess people can kind of figure it out in the interview if you are too much BS, but I have a masters and have done several professional jobs (in different fields) none of which have asked me for my transcript and other form of proof that I actually am "qualified". It is enough to make you wonder if you should just drop out after second year and go right to work. Everyone expects a fresh out of school programmer to have some pretty crappy code for a year or so until code reviewers beat good practices into them anyways so ... Probably could have made another 150k or so in my lifetime if I'd known ahead of time. Oh well, what would life be without nuclear physics and complex analysis?
This is a Canadian study. I'm Canadian and the university experience I had both white and male were the minority (and vastly so in some fields: humanities women, math and CS asians). More women graduate than men. More women than men work in professional jobs. Asians make more than whites on average (ever wonder why they aren't included in affirmative action check boxes in most schools?)
Agreed having a degree doesn't equal qualified. Switching jobs out of your field and taking something else for example. Study music because you like it but then end up working as a social worker instead. Etc. The other thing is fields that cross education levels like IT and programming. I have a masters degree (and got it for my amusement not for any desire to use it for a job qualification) but have worked at places were my colleagues only had college. It didn't really matter, whoever was the more experienced or otherwise better code monkey was more senior regardless of education.
There's an order of magnitude (at least) difference in funding for research on the pro-warming vs against. Hopefully you are right and however disproved man made climate change would win a Nobel prize and be rewarded as a great scientist etc. I'm more synical though. Al Gore got the nobel for a pro warming position. Would the Nobel committee be willing to give someone a prize for doing something they already rewarded on the other side? If so I don't think it could be a peace prize because presumably if nothing is happening then you aren't warning governments about impending doom/preventing resource wars.
The other thing is say the climate is changing but not due (or at least not largely do) to human activity. I could take A LOT more effort to get enough data to decouple things vs the pro side which (not exclusively for sure but often) just says "hey look the last 10 years where hotter than the 10 before it, ipso facto humans". I think it is more scary to them that it could possibly not be human activity and we could be doomed no matter what we do. Easier to blame it on SUVs and become vegan to lower your carbon foot print so you can feel like you are doing something.
The cost (hopefully) of up front doing the obvious validation means you don't need a lot of manual checking and/or you save a lot of back and forth getting the right data. I think that is why it is linked: the whole point of digitizing isn't to get rid of the paper it is to automatize.
Unless they have to pay companies aren't going to care how many tanks are needed to guard and/or kill the competition. Heck armies use resources too driving up the price/profit.
No I don't think it will be simple I just don't think we are special. We panic/fear because:
a) someone isn't nice to us
b) someone dies from a disease
c) some nutjob kills a few people in a theater
d) something happens causing refugees
While all aren't good things none of them are new. As they say in Iran Shite happens.
Well food prices also increase because developing nations are drastically increasing their meat use which requires a lot of crops to go into feeding pigs/chickens/cows. Which I'm okay with because everyone should get to enjoy barbecued animal carcass.
But I agree ethanol is one of the dumbest ideas out there. If you get ethanol as a biproduct of a process you already need to do and use that for fuel, okay. But to turn food land into gas land is crazy. Especially if Billy-Bob needs to drive his diesel all over the place to tend to the crop and spray fertilizer (often generated via fossil fuels). It further leads to a mono-culture which likely screws with things like bees (especially if the seed is Monsanto terminator crops where the pollen has been specifically engineered to be screwed up so you can't replant it) and moves prices so that pretty much everything you by in the store has corn or soy in it. No thanks.
Some global warming might be good for people. Our mean latitude seems to be around 30 degrees but it looks like to me there is a lot more land at higher latitudes which would then become more comfortable.: http://www.themarysue.com/worl.... Will populations need to move away from the current coasts and maybe further away from the tropics, maybe. But people migrate, always have always will.
For normally distributed errors.
Exactly. Also conflict of interest. If being pro-warming means 10M in funding this year and being anti means 1M you can magically forget things. There are so many variables that you can easily nudge things this way and that. For example are the measurement sites evenly distributed over the earth? if not how much weight do you assign to each point, where are the borders at geographical points, square grids etc?
I worked at a genetics lab and pretty much everything they did was to "cure cancer". I want to make a glow in the dark bug, er I mean make a tool to identify tumor cells. I want to figure out why people have a hair line, er I mean learn how to control stem cells to cure cancer etc. The "science" goes were the money is. (generally speaking where the money is is also where the good publication opportunities are too, as well as the graduates with the best creds to enter post grad positions).
But it matters where you measure too. Did they measure at the same location? Did did those locations on average urbanize and pave their roads, divert their water etc? I'm very suspicious of any claims to have accuracy of a hundredth of a degree over that time period.
They could have done something like put any data older than a month or larger than 1TB a month onto tape. Sure it is unlimited but you'll have to wait a couple hours to see any of it again. That would probably change usage patterns. My suspicion is a large if not majority of the stuff was pirated or at least backups of people's media collection. Your usage patterns would change a lot I think if the next time you want to watch Titanic you had to wait 3hrs to get it back from tape. You'd probably just re-download it from somewhere else.
Hierarchical storage would be the best way to push of "abusers" I think. People's hoarding tendencies might magically solve themselves should they make it very inconvenient, while those with "real" stuff (ie stuff they created that they can't just download again) wouldn't care that they might have to wait a few hours to get last years vacation pictures back.
" I don't have to worry or manage or delete old versions." I think that is just it. I was thinking about what I would do if unlimited was available to me (never was as far as I know in Canuckistan). I think usage patterns would change. As it is I download things, yeah sometimes entire seasons of a show at a time. As I watch I delete. But every once in a while I'll discover a show I didn't know was any good, download 300GB more etc, rinse and repeat.
I think if it was unlimited: I'd probably just make an "already watched" folder and just move things over to it when done. Ie I'd magically have an ever growing (at about 10GB a day given my viewing habits, and once things are 4k probably 40GB) pile of stuff that they'd have to store. I don't "need" to I just would because "I paid for it".
For those initially getting unlimited you might have say 1% that actually use > 1TB. But it will rapidly grow out of control as people discover the joys of throwing the delete key away. I also suspect that the changes to OneDrive in Win 10 were related to this: no longer seeing "tombstones" of files that are only online means effectively to manage your collection of backed up stuff I think you'd need at least as much storage locally as you have in the cloud so you could "see" the files you are moving around. That's my theory at least.
Probably need to nip it in the bud because it is only going to get worse. People will start streaming 4k (who haven't already), more cord cutters etc. It is only going to get worse for them.
It sucks to be a large user but I think it needs to be metered. They could have variable pricing based on time of day, heck when not "congested" they could just give it away making it defacto unlimited from say 10pm to 9am. But as a guy that downloads about 500GB a month: I get that it can't be free.
My guess is that forms code can actually be much more complicated. My work ~300k lines production and another 200k of tests.This is something that is basically a combination on SharePoint, GoogleDoc, and Live + support for some in house accounting products to "sync"/collaborate online. Anyways, about even 8 each over the last 7 years of UI and backend devs. So either you are using a lot of libraries, you are really that good, or CAD is much, much less complicated.
My guess some combination of 1 and 3. CAD basically things have to touch. Business rules: can be all over the place. Fill in lines 10-15, and 20 except if a non-profit and then only 12, except if you incorporated before 2008 in the UK or are a resident of New Zealand. ... things are a lot less structured when it comes to forms I think and each different combination adds a branch that needs to be unit tested and opportunities for regressions that have to be tracked down and fixed every time you touch something.
Thought bubble of inventor: "sitting is bad for you but I don't want to stand, I know if I could only lie down all day ..." I'd like a standing setup but stuck in a cubicle with desks too narrow to put anything on (and 3 monitors plus a couple days a week my laptop on the desk). But rarely if ever sit for more than an hour at a time. Between coffee, the corresponding washroom breaks, and eating 3 meals a day at work (usually coming to work after the gym so protein, then lunch in a couple hours, then snack a couple hours after that). Mah.
I say if you can't find an excuse to stand up every hour your job doesn't involve enough thinking for my tastes. I'm thinking about how I'm going to design a feature/test, what technology will solve a problem, business goals of what my feature should look like to the end user etc when I'm walking around for my coffee. It isn't wasted time, sitting at my desk trying to pound something out without stopping to think would be.
They said everything attached by magnets so I think it is B. But when is the last time you saw a metal mouse (at least if you aren't an Apple fanboy)? Probably paranoid but who wants a magnet that close to their computer/external drive and whatever gadgets you might chose to plugin?
For those that have offices a shelf with a spare pair of monitors and a KVM is a decent standing desk. A product manager at my office has that setup, has the bonus of when she gets antsy and sick sitting with the same view she can walk around her desk to the standing area for a while. They also put that shelf right next to her door which I assume would be useful when you need to quickly pop in and send out a few emails between meetings or what not. Something about the act of sitting tacks 5 min onto any quick email scan.
Also, I'm not sure how a mouse would work. Unless you have your sensitivity way up (and I'm not sure you can go this high) you often have to pick up the mouse and move it over to get more lateral space (3-4 monitor set up) to move the mouse all the way across screens. How does that work if the mouse is attached with magnets?
The other thing is I'm not certain that reclining with your arm wanting to go parallel with the ground will work when your keyboard/mouse is at ~45 degrees. You might not have to lift it but it is like holding your arm over your head the whole time. I can't see how that is going to be healthy. All sorts of little issues potentially too, I realize our bodies are capable of it but how much does your eyes like to be open and blinking for hours at a time while you are laying on your back? The muscles are adapted to be working directly with/against gravity for most of your waking hours. Buildings are designed that way too by the way: fans/heating ducts blowing straight down (now into your eyes) as are lights. A slightly reclining with foot rest chair would be great I think but reclining back into an almost horizontal position I think has way to many issues.
Could be the opposite bias too. "Normals" that didn't found a .com have an excuse and something to be thankful for: "Well I'm not autistic that is why, and at least I don't have a disease." I agree with you though most techies are "well adjusted" they might have a tendency towards "nerdy interests" but is that any worse than a musician that goes to India to learn to play "weird" instruments, or a lawyer that reads cases in a different subspeciality because they are interested in the law? People have things they are passionate about, whippedy shit. Not everyone is stuck doing a job they aren't interested in.
It depends how it manifests. My friends 13 yr old isn't great at school and his autism makes him very emotional and socially awkward. He doesn't really like music though, haven't heard him play for a few years so I suppose he could be getting good. But say that is the way he "succeeds" with his autism? It doesn't stop the socially awkward and emotional bits. He'd probably end up being a musical "genius" in the Kobain sense not in the Handel sense, ie not able to cope with the things that cope with it and dying because of it. He's as bad off as if he was born with no "special talent" for anything and instead had an IQ of say 80..
They probably were just assuming that no one had enough upload bandwidth to get to really large values quickly. I have (10Mbps upload) about 1MB/s reliably upload bandwith. It would take me close to 3 years to get to the 75TB they are claiming some had assuming I didn't upload anywhere else. I think they probably didn't count on anyone having say a symmetric 1Gbps connection.