Back to the original point, there were people who did not mind that a black guy got killed, and there are people who don't mind if a police officer shoots someone, even if the victims were unarmed. Yes, most people think it's a tragedy, but there is the fringe who don't. I brought up Zimmerman because in some circles he's celebrated as a hero.
An unarmed person was shot, and there was little evidence about what really happened or if he was really attacked or merely felt threatened. Zimmerman had phoned the police often in days and weeks before the shooting, complaining about suspicious people and that they kept getting away.
The question is strange. "IT" is not a general purpose term to describe everyone who programs or touches a computer. Why would an IT person know about blockchain or AI unless they ran across it in school, since it's not in the job description of any IT department. The language is changing too much. For me, I wouldn't even call DevOps IT.
No. A different company was already interviewing me in the area, so Bell Labs and another company they were willing to interview me as long as I was in the area anyway:-)
The problem is, there isn't a perfect language, and there's no language that perfectly covers all styles and domains. Thus people do come up with new ones in order to fill a void. Ie, C was good enough for most things awhile back, but it's hard to learn it well and use it well and very easy to make mistakes in. Then Objective C and C++ gave a couple of different takes on object oriented programming. Modula-II and Ada came from a European lineage, with a good set of abstractions and type safety. Lisp led to Common Lisp with object orientation, then Scheme for a functional version. Then all the scripting languages that don't have to be compiled, some that are meant to be quick and dirty to get the job done, and others that try to be more structured and formal.
So all these languages try to either adapt to a niche that other languages don't fit into very well, or try to improve on past languages.
Speaking of ML, I once had an interview at Bell Labs and they sent me off to another guy after they saw I had some SML experience. Then I told him that I preferred Lisp and listed some of the stuff I disliked about SML. I just got a funny look. Later that evening it dawned on me that the "New Jersey SML" might have something to do with Bell Labs, and I looked it up and found out I had just dissed the language in front of one of its chief designers...
One extreme is the overuse of layers and abstractions wrapped around abstractions, which makes for nice diagrams that make it look like you worked hard. The other extreme that I see are the self taught low level programmers who didn't get a lot of mentoring along the way, that don't see what's wrong sharing globals across all the files. I have to explain the basics of simple abstraction to a 50 year old programmer who should know better, who complains that it's stupid to put split code into layers or modules because it's easier to understand if it was in one big file.
I want something in the middle, ability to think at a low level and get stuff done efficiently but also able to use the obvious abstractions that makes code easy to change and adapt in the future.
Don't you know? Education is overrated, everyone's supposed to be self taught, theory is for losers, type checking is for incompetents, and languages like ML are for old fuddy duddies.
And yet there are huge numbers who do support the "it was self defense!" argument for police and citizens alike. Ie, George Zimmerman claims "stand your ground" as a defense even though he followed Trayvon Martin after police dispatcher told him not to, and is not even convicted of manslaughter.
Maybe they don't support police murdering someone, but they also rephrase it as self defense, or a quick reaction based on police training, or that the suspect probably was guilty of something so that makes it ok.
The staff did not know there was a drill. The person taking the message did not put it on speaker so that everyone could hear the "exercise" part. So the important phone rings, someone picks it up, then shouts "Not a drill!" The other military personnel are trained to follow orders, not start a discussion or get clarification. The base needed a patsy to blame and they found one.
Not just another D. B. Cooper theory, the whole thing has all the ingredients of and reads like a conspiracy theory. If it was true, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer should treat the story better instead of using a sensationalist style normally seen in tabloids.
The jobs of the tellers and the versatility of the banks has changed. A lot of tellers used to do just what ATMs do. That job diminished (not vanished though, there are some who avoid ATMs). Today though there is a lot more activity at the bank other than depositing and withdrawing money. People are investing more as individuals, as there are more than just basic savings accounts being used by normal people. Tellers that went away were replaced with more financial consultants, mortgage professionals, and back office workers to process the cash and checks collected by the ATMs.
Online services haven't replaced them either. Anyone with any sense knows that the internet isn't safe, the bank's online security lags behind even social media companies in many instances. I think younger people using mobile phones for transactions has started to eliminate some jobs,though the safety of such is a bit of a concern.
Don't confuse basic research with media desperate to push more stories. I don't think any researcher has said one glass a day of wine will keep cancer away. If you read it in a newspaper instead of a journal, then treat it with healthy suspicion. If you heard it from a friend, then treat it with distrust. If you heard it on Goop, then what the hell were you doing there?
There's always a very small conspiracy theory base, you can ignore them. What is worrisome is when conspiracy theorists rise to positions of power, or when those in power pay attention to the ramblings of disturbed people with their own blogs and radio shows.
You can always assist the customers in migrating. Instead of heavy handed tactics, offer a steeply discounted upgrade price, with extra support and customer service to cover migration headaches.
You can also stay with the current Office for as long as possible. If every customer immediately jumps through every hoop Microsoft presents, Microsoft will sit back smugly. If the sales don't go well, they'll rethink their position, even temporarily as happened with Windows 8.1. Customers need to show that they're an important part of the relationship and not a passive codependent.
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Back to the original point, there were people who did not mind that a black guy got killed, and there are people who don't mind if a police officer shoots someone, even if the victims were unarmed. Yes, most people think it's a tragedy, but there is the fringe who don't. I brought up Zimmerman because in some circles he's celebrated as a hero.
There is no such thing as gravity. The earth sucks.
You're going to try and communicate with the sex of the turtle?
An unarmed person was shot, and there was little evidence about what really happened or if he was really attacked or merely felt threatened. Zimmerman had phoned the police often in days and weeks before the shooting, complaining about suspicious people and that they kept getting away.
The question is strange. "IT" is not a general purpose term to describe everyone who programs or touches a computer. Why would an IT person know about blockchain or AI unless they ran across it in school, since it's not in the job description of any IT department. The language is changing too much. For me, I wouldn't even call DevOps IT.
No, but to my original point, it does train you to follow orders without discussing them first.
It was heavily influenced by and related to languages designed by Niklaus Wirth. After all, many Americans also came from a European lineage.
No. A different company was already interviewing me in the area, so Bell Labs and another company they were willing to interview me as long as I was in the area anyway :-)
The problem is, there isn't a perfect language, and there's no language that perfectly covers all styles and domains. Thus people do come up with new ones in order to fill a void. Ie, C was good enough for most things awhile back, but it's hard to learn it well and use it well and very easy to make mistakes in. Then Objective C and C++ gave a couple of different takes on object oriented programming. Modula-II and Ada came from a European lineage, with a good set of abstractions and type safety. Lisp led to Common Lisp with object orientation, then Scheme for a functional version. Then all the scripting languages that don't have to be compiled, some that are meant to be quick and dirty to get the job done, and others that try to be more structured and formal.
So all these languages try to either adapt to a niche that other languages don't fit into very well, or try to improve on past languages.
Speaking of ML, I once had an interview at Bell Labs and they sent me off to another guy after they saw I had some SML experience. Then I told him that I preferred Lisp and listed some of the stuff I disliked about SML. I just got a funny look. Later that evening it dawned on me that the "New Jersey SML" might have something to do with Bell Labs, and I looked it up and found out I had just dissed the language in front of one of its chief designers...
One extreme is the overuse of layers and abstractions wrapped around abstractions, which makes for nice diagrams that make it look like you worked hard. The other extreme that I see are the self taught low level programmers who didn't get a lot of mentoring along the way, that don't see what's wrong sharing globals across all the files. I have to explain the basics of simple abstraction to a 50 year old programmer who should know better, who complains that it's stupid to put split code into layers or modules because it's easier to understand if it was in one big file.
I want something in the middle, ability to think at a low level and get stuff done efficiently but also able to use the obvious abstractions that makes code easy to change and adapt in the future.
Don't you know? Education is overrated, everyone's supposed to be self taught, theory is for losers, type checking is for incompetents, and languages like ML are for old fuddy duddies.
Police called it stand-your-ground, according to wikipedia. So my mistake.
However, they do get military training, and not just weekend marching.
And yet there are huge numbers who do support the "it was self defense!" argument for police and citizens alike. Ie, George Zimmerman claims "stand your ground" as a defense even though he followed Trayvon Martin after police dispatcher told him not to, and is not even convicted of manslaughter.
Maybe they don't support police murdering someone, but they also rephrase it as self defense, or a quick reaction based on police training, or that the suspect probably was guilty of something so that makes it ok.
Sorry, they weren't military. Don't know why this sort of thing wasn't managed by the national guard.
Last time I went outside on a Saturday, I stepped in some bull shit.
The staff did not know there was a drill. The person taking the message did not put it on speaker so that everyone could hear the "exercise" part. So the important phone rings, someone picks it up, then shouts "Not a drill!" The other military personnel are trained to follow orders, not start a discussion or get clarification. The base needed a patsy to blame and they found one.
I noticed this too. Maybe people are so used to getting their news from radio talk shows that they don't know how the names are spelled?
Not just another D. B. Cooper theory, the whole thing has all the ingredients of and reads like a conspiracy theory. If it was true, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer should treat the story better instead of using a sensationalist style normally seen in tabloids.
The jobs of the tellers and the versatility of the banks has changed. A lot of tellers used to do just what ATMs do. That job diminished (not vanished though, there are some who avoid ATMs). Today though there is a lot more activity at the bank other than depositing and withdrawing money. People are investing more as individuals, as there are more than just basic savings accounts being used by normal people. Tellers that went away were replaced with more financial consultants, mortgage professionals, and back office workers to process the cash and checks collected by the ATMs.
Online services haven't replaced them either. Anyone with any sense knows that the internet isn't safe, the bank's online security lags behind even social media companies in many instances. I think younger people using mobile phones for transactions has started to eliminate some jobs,though the safety of such is a bit of a concern.
Doctor's promote more fiber too, don't let your anti doctor rant get in the way of logic.
Don't confuse basic research with media desperate to push more stories. I don't think any researcher has said one glass a day of wine will keep cancer away. If you read it in a newspaper instead of a journal, then treat it with healthy suspicion. If you heard it from a friend, then treat it with distrust. If you heard it on Goop, then what the hell were you doing there?
There's always a very small conspiracy theory base, you can ignore them. What is worrisome is when conspiracy theorists rise to positions of power, or when those in power pay attention to the ramblings of disturbed people with their own blogs and radio shows.
You can always assist the customers in migrating. Instead of heavy handed tactics, offer a steeply discounted upgrade price, with extra support and customer service to cover migration headaches.
You can also stay with the current Office for as long as possible. If every customer immediately jumps through every hoop Microsoft presents, Microsoft will sit back smugly. If the sales don't go well, they'll rethink their position, even temporarily as happened with Windows 8.1. Customers need to show that they're an important part of the relationship and not a passive codependent.