Rule of thumb: If the senators have (R) next to the name, they are evil and corrupt; if the senators have (D) next to the name, they are evil and corrupt; if the senators have (I) next to the name then they are evil, corrupt, but at least it's their own decision instead of orders from the party bosses.
My condo complex has a sign saying "people who have recently had diarhea should not use the pool", and my brother would laugh and laugh at it, thinking I was living in a dump. But it's a rule made by the city and not because we've got a lot of incontinent accidents.
A point here is that the lack of a sign saying "do not shit on the seats" is not the same as permission to shit on the seats! Similarly, the lack of a code of conduct should never be treated as an excuse to be an asshat, but for some reason that seems to be the case far to often.
And just about every place of employment you can complain to HR and they will pull out their book of rules and codes of conduct and find a way to deal with that person. The asshat is only going to be kept around if no one complains or he's friends with a CEO or founder.
In my experience, when I was with medical technology companies, there was the largest percentage of women in software and hardware roles compared to other places I have worked. Speculation, but I can see two reasons, one of which is the concept you have of "greater good" however that is also a strong motivator for many men also. A second large reason is networking - if you've got a sizeable number of women already it becomes easier to recruit other women.
In other jobs though, larger companies tended to have more women in general, smaller companies fresh out of startup mode tended to be very hghly male dominated. An early computer support job I was at had a very good representation of system admins who were female, but this was the 80s.
The pipeline people were paid by the corporations anyway. None of the oil goes to America anyway, it's being refined and sent to China. Whining about paid protesters while ignoring the paid mercenaries hired by corporations seems like a stretch.
Except that this isn't SV culture per se. It may be Google culture, but if you did a survey you'd find that the 90 hour job is rare outside of startups, and startups are only a small fraction of technical and engineering companies. Nobody who works for a living hangs out at cocktail parties exchanging idea about the next big thing. Media focuses on stereotypes because it fits the narrative.
Tons of counter examples, so many that you can't even make a good stereotype out of it. Young kids who refuse to learn anything new, or who can't, outnumber those who can in my experience. They don't have the experience necessary to learn something new, they only know what they learned in class, if you're lucky enough to not get someone special who decided education was optional. The younger workers are demanding higher salaries too, especially if they came from an overfunded started. They all need training of course, more training than experience workers, no one comes out of school or an entry level job suddenly knowing what the job needs.
The problem with optimal experience is that Microsoft means their own experience not that of the users. Optimal for them means that the customers are eyeballs for advertisers and with easy to access to data for analytics. Optimal experience for the actual users means that they can turn off Microsoft's control, nothing ever defaults to opt-in, and they don't get tracked or advertised to.
All the CS classes I use at work at one point or another, but I run across so many professional programmers that just don't seem to understand computer science, they're just coders. They sort of self-learn some advanced topics but it feels like they're just stumbling along the same steps someone already took instead of going further. People 20 to 30 years programming will complain that code reviews are worthless and why do they have to use "const". And so few people understand floating point that I'm baffled how they got this far. That's just the programming part, never mind not having any concept of algorithms or graph theory or other concepts that underly what they're doing.
I had to have 10% down I think for my condo, and only that low because of a good credit score. Paying less down means you end up paying lots more points which is more expensive in the long run.
Employment is rarely stable, even in past generations. But you're making another mistake - without the government doing anything, most larger companies are paying the health care costs anyway. If you're trying to be competitive when hiring employees, the very first perk you're going to have to show is a medical plan. Without the plan the only employees you're going to get are those who couldn't get a job elsewhere.
It's sort of a holdover when one expected a broad based education for management style jobs. Getting that English degree was not always a dead end choice. For instance, getting into law school does not require having a marketable undergraduate degree. Part of the problem is that many job positions are much more picky than they used to be - they want to hire managers with MBAs despite it being pointless for so many management jobs for instance.
Even for technical jobs I feel strongly that a broader based education in that field is still much much better than a narrow focus in the long run. Never aim for the first entry level job to be your entire career. So someone who wants only to learn about web programing and ignore everything else is most likely going to be stuck at the bottom rung forever. This sort of feels like the current tendency in society to mock and downplay intellectural pursuits has permeated even engineering disciplines. "Be your best" is not fashionable for some reason.
Fry's worked because it was in Silicon Valley, back when there was still silicon in the valley and not just web advertising companies. There was a whole region full of people who wanted this stuff a couple decades before "Maker" was coined. They wanted to build a computer, they knew how to solder, they wanted DIY kits for their kids, or get a phone cable crimper.
This was also in the boom of technology I think too, before the monoculture of the dumbed down PC and passive consumers. Remember the pilgrimage from Fry's to HT Electronics to the Computer Literacy Bookshop.
So true. For me, Radio Shack was the only store for a hundred miles with any remote amount ot geekiness to it. Maybe the internet hurt them, but I don't like shopping online and would rather support local business - if any local business remains alive to support...
Way slower? I see no slowdowns at all, except sometimes when the link is slow. If they link is good and solid there's no need for it to be faster. I also use noscript so maybe that's the reason.
Fewer and fewer options too in Firefox. Though Mozilla's defenders of the realm will claim you can do it all from the obscure hidden settings page. I don't want one size to fit all, and yet everything seems to be moving that way.
The phone browsers look nothing at all like their PC counterparts that have the same name. Completely different look and feel and speed. I don't see why liking Chrome or Firefox on a phone says anything at all about liking them on a PC. They certainly don't share the same code. Right now, there are no good browsers on phones, the display is too small and interface too clumsy for something like a web browser.
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Rule of thumb: If the senators have (R) next to the name, they are evil and corrupt; if the senators have (D) next to the name, they are evil and corrupt; if the senators have (I) next to the name then they are evil, corrupt, but at least it's their own decision instead of orders from the party bosses.
My condo complex has a sign saying "people who have recently had diarhea should not use the pool", and my brother would laugh and laugh at it, thinking I was living in a dump. But it's a rule made by the city and not because we've got a lot of incontinent accidents.
A point here is that the lack of a sign saying "do not shit on the seats" is not the same as permission to shit on the seats! Similarly, the lack of a code of conduct should never be treated as an excuse to be an asshat, but for some reason that seems to be the case far to often.
And just about every place of employment you can complain to HR and they will pull out their book of rules and codes of conduct and find a way to deal with that person. The asshat is only going to be kept around if no one complains or he's friends with a CEO or founder.
And yet just about every company in the US has a code of conduct.
I'd prefer to start with children of congress members being first in line to be drafted. That would put a quick halt to war hawk mentalities.
In my experience, when I was with medical technology companies, there was the largest percentage of women in software and hardware roles compared to other places I have worked. Speculation, but I can see two reasons, one of which is the concept you have of "greater good" however that is also a strong motivator for many men also. A second large reason is networking - if you've got a sizeable number of women already it becomes easier to recruit other women.
In other jobs though, larger companies tended to have more women in general, smaller companies fresh out of startup mode tended to be very hghly male dominated. An early computer support job I was at had a very good representation of system admins who were female, but this was the 80s.
The pipeline people were paid by the corporations anyway. None of the oil goes to America anyway, it's being refined and sent to China. Whining about paid protesters while ignoring the paid mercenaries hired by corporations seems like a stretch.
Half of them have never seen a wheel, so they don't know that they're reinventing it.
Except that this isn't SV culture per se. It may be Google culture, but if you did a survey you'd find that the 90 hour job is rare outside of startups, and startups are only a small fraction of technical and engineering companies. Nobody who works for a living hangs out at cocktail parties exchanging idea about the next big thing. Media focuses on stereotypes because it fits the narrative.
Tons of counter examples, so many that you can't even make a good stereotype out of it. Young kids who refuse to learn anything new, or who can't, outnumber those who can in my experience. They don't have the experience necessary to learn something new, they only know what they learned in class, if you're lucky enough to not get someone special who decided education was optional. The younger workers are demanding higher salaries too, especially if they came from an overfunded started. They all need training of course, more training than experience workers, no one comes out of school or an entry level job suddenly knowing what the job needs.
The problem with optimal experience is that Microsoft means their own experience not that of the users. Optimal for them means that the customers are eyeballs for advertisers and with easy to access to data for analytics. Optimal experience for the actual users means that they can turn off Microsoft's control, nothing ever defaults to opt-in, and they don't get tracked or advertised to.
I know, but when it was new it was just a grocery store in the Bay Area, which morphed into a tiny number of technology oriented stores in the 80s.
All the CS classes I use at work at one point or another, but I run across so many professional programmers that just don't seem to understand computer science, they're just coders. They sort of self-learn some advanced topics but it feels like they're just stumbling along the same steps someone already took instead of going further. People 20 to 30 years programming will complain that code reviews are worthless and why do they have to use "const". And so few people understand floating point that I'm baffled how they got this far. That's just the programming part, never mind not having any concept of algorithms or graph theory or other concepts that underly what they're doing.
I had to have 10% down I think for my condo, and only that low because of a good credit score. Paying less down means you end up paying lots more points which is more expensive in the long run.
Employment is rarely stable, even in past generations.
But you're making another mistake - without the government doing anything, most larger companies are paying the health care costs anyway. If you're trying to be competitive when hiring employees, the very first perk you're going to have to show is a medical plan. Without the plan the only employees you're going to get are those who couldn't get a job elsewhere.
So make those loan payments on time. That increases credit score making house buying easier.
It's sort of a holdover when one expected a broad based education for management style jobs. Getting that English degree was not always a dead end choice. For instance, getting into law school does not require having a marketable undergraduate degree. Part of the problem is that many job positions are much more picky than they used to be - they want to hire managers with MBAs despite it being pointless for so many management jobs for instance.
Even for technical jobs I feel strongly that a broader based education in that field is still much much better than a narrow focus in the long run. Never aim for the first entry level job to be your entire career. So someone who wants only to learn about web programing and ignore everything else is most likely going to be stuck at the bottom rung forever. This sort of feels like the current tendency in society to mock and downplay intellectural pursuits has permeated even engineering disciplines. "Be your best" is not fashionable for some reason.
Fry's worked because it was in Silicon Valley, back when there was still silicon in the valley and not just web advertising companies. There was a whole region full of people who wanted this stuff a couple decades before "Maker" was coined. They wanted to build a computer, they knew how to solder, they wanted DIY kits for their kids, or get a phone cable crimper.
This was also in the boom of technology I think too, before the monoculture of the dumbed down PC and passive consumers. Remember the pilgrimage from Fry's to HT Electronics to the Computer Literacy Bookshop.
So true. For me, Radio Shack was the only store for a hundred miles with any remote amount ot geekiness to it. Maybe the internet hurt them, but I don't like shopping online and would rather support local business - if any local business remains alive to support...
I got up to 30 days be being very careful. Then I accidentally opened up Notepad and down it went.
Firefox is just a skin for Chrome. Or is it Chrome is a skin for Firefox? I can't tell.
Way slower? I see no slowdowns at all, except sometimes when the link is slow. If they link is good and solid there's no need for it to be faster. I also use noscript so maybe that's the reason.
I think it's because Mozilla people are using Chrome that they decided to copy everything from Chrome instead of trying to be better or different.
Fewer and fewer options too in Firefox. Though Mozilla's defenders of the realm will claim you can do it all from the obscure hidden settings page. I don't want one size to fit all, and yet everything seems to be moving that way.
The phone browsers look nothing at all like their PC counterparts that have the same name. Completely different look and feel and speed. I don't see why liking Chrome or Firefox on a phone says anything at all about liking them on a PC. They certainly don't share the same code. Right now, there are no good browsers on phones, the display is too small and interface too clumsy for something like a web browser.