The previous government about a year and a half ago published a memo pretty much saying that foreign students should be given a hard time if they express interest in staying to work after their studies.
This was published, completely unwarranted by the government. Granted Gueant isn't known for his openness, but still, literally no-one was asking for this.
French unis and grandes écoles want foreign students, french companies are more than willing to hire foreign students (when they're highly skilled and seem to be willing to work hard). Like I said, no one asked for this.
The problem I have with the second point is that people don't necessarily want unlimited children. Talking about it being unmaintanable in the long run treats this as a one-dimensional supply/demand problem, which it isn't (look at the japanese gov't's attempt to spur baby-making...).
I think you underestimate the quality of javascript (which is not the worst thing you could use as a scripting language, def better than using java of all things), and overestimate the role of Java in the "slowness" of the game. Just because the graphics look like they're from quake 2 doesn't mean that's all there is to it.
take Dwarf Fotress and try to play it on a P3. You might think it's running normally because it's hard to gauge speed in a text-based interface but... it's running really slowly. World simulation is computation heavy(probably a lot of cache issues too), no matter what way you cut it. Fun anecdote: my first experiences with DF were on a Pentium 3, and I played it like that for maybe a month before trying it on a fast computer. Boy was I in for a ride.
I would think that this is primarily be because they're significantly more popular than the competitors, though, and not due to any bias on the part of Google.
A while ago there was a whole thing about how this wasn't the case. I think it was maybe for Picasa, among other things, where related terms were making it show up in the top non-advertised slot despite the fact that related websites were much more in use, leading to allegations of google manipulating the results.
As said in other threads, this seems to be a fraud issue, since google presents their system as working one way yet manipulates it in a completely different way in some cases.
Thank you for pointing this out. The thing that matters in these cases is the point of sale, not the point of creation. If this passes, we could see things like car companies forcing dealerships to buy from overseas, however. That would be worrying for actual distribution outlets. Imagine your entire business being at the whim of manufacturers desires, even after you paid them.
because you've become de facto on call 24/7. Granted, a solution is just to not pick up , but that choice doesn't even have to be made with a desk phone.
should be a treasonable offense by public officials. String the state dept up, every single last one of them.
please check the definition of treason in the US:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
health insurance is a lot more expensive than 100 euros/month. Dunno exact prices but I think thousands might be more correct (for family plans at least).
There's a difference between a free ride and a less expensive ride.
Most people don't have the luxury of having their parents helping to pay, and just saying " take a loan " is what caused prices to rise as much as they have : Schools know the gov't is giving out the loans, so they raise prices without fear. Pretty much handing money over to the schools. It's hard for prices to stabilize if the consumers are given infinite buying power.
> Traditional unions (the ones with red flags) would crack down hard on performance based bonus systems.
The reason that unions are against this sort of thing is that instead of being assured a certain salary, what would normally be your salary becomes some performance-based system based on completely artificial statistics, meaning your "base" salary drops overall.
I'm not saying perfomance bonuses are bad , just that 1) it shouldn't replace your salary (especially in high cost-of-living areas like SF , and that 2) It's a lot easier for the company you're working for to game the system than it is for you to attempt to.
The issue is fundamentally the same as other union issues, which is worker protection. Also see things like Silicon Valley companies agreeing not to poach on each others employees (thus lowering salaries for everyone as well).
I'd rather the base salary go up rather than go down, especially in a large company where I'm just a cog in a machine and "performance" is fundamentally a group metric anyways.
> the Supreme Court just held up that "first sale" doesn't count if the *thing* was intended to be sold to a segregated market, or sold to you by an unlicensed distributor.
No, they heard the arguments for a case that, if it goes anti-first-sale, would mean that a sale in a foreign country does not constitute "first-sale". So this would just mean if you bought your car in China and then try to have it shipped to the US, you would not have resale rights
I think by employment situation he meant the situation of employed people, not the employment rate.
You can live on minimum wage in France a hell of a lot better than on minimum wage in the US, and still get a decent amount of consumer protection.
There have been so many cases of people being exploited by companies because they are essentially forced to become contractors, instead of employees (with all the protection it entails). Why would you want to make that easier?
always having exact change for any transaction requires a good amount of acrobatics, especially if you live in places that still have penny-ful prices.
While they are more reactive than proactive on that front unluckily(or luckily, depending on your standpoint), it's not as if the reaction treats exactly one case.
body scanners can stop more than just shoe bombers in principal. It's very much a unit-test philosophy: When you get a problem, make a test , and with some luck the test will have more coverage than just one specific thing.
Obviously doing nothing is not really a solution either. While locked cockpits stop a lot of things, it doesn't stop explosions from causing problems.
Fair use is when the usage is limited, notably concerning the "value" of the IP.
If Google takes Yelp reviews wholesale and puts them into search results, they're effectively reducing the value of the post, since Yelp will not get a click. Granted, there are arguments about discoverability and the like, but it's not some trivial fair use.
As someone who has had to deal with ADD for his entire life , I can assure you that it is not just a pharmaceutical ploy. I can barely write this sentence , and I have already been distracted three times. When I was in middle school, I was prescribed Adderall to deal with my ADD, and my concentration capabilities shot up immensely (going from 90 minutes to do math homework to 10). In high school I stopped taking it, and forgot mainly about it ( I moved to a different country at the time, and was having problems with the language and culture).
Now in the "real" world, I realise how handicapping this affliction is, where I'll take an hour to write a 2-sentence e-mail, and where I can't read through a research paper without taking a break every 2 minutes. Unfourtunately I now live in a country where Adderall is illegal, and the country I lived in before doesn't recognize ADD/ADHD in adults. There are people with worse problems, but it's still extremely frustrating to have the attention span of a goldfish.
As an aside, the best way I've found to deal with the problem is to say things out loud as I do them, I think that somehow the speech centers of the brain help with concentration (though I still tune out quite frequently in conversations). I'm less than comfortable about doing that with my coworkers though.
It would be nicer if, in these situations, people would gravitate more towards a std::sort or equivalent but consider the following:
- People are used to sorting taking a while. All you need to do is display a spinning wheel gif that appears after you click "sort" and people won't really care in many situations
- Businesses aren't all Google/Facebook/whoever. If you are working on giant databases, then obviously you should be trained for it. If you have a text file with 100 phone numbers in it, who cares how long it takes to sort, it'll be negligeable compared to the initial file read.
- Computers have so much disposable time anyways, that a lot of "inefficient" ways of doing things are probably the better choice anyways , in respect to maintanability.
I do think that it's a good idea for smart people to be available to write some code, but even if v1 is badly written by beginners, a well designed systems will have ample tests that would allow you to see "oh look, this guy is using bubble sort instead of timsort" , and allow you to iterate on it. Easier to optimized working code than make optimized code work.
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The previous government about a year and a half ago published a memo pretty much saying that foreign students should be given a hard time if they express interest in staying to work after their studies.
This was published, completely unwarranted by the government. Granted Gueant isn't known for his openness, but still, literally no-one was asking for this.
French unis and grandes écoles want foreign students, french companies are more than willing to hire foreign students (when they're highly skilled and seem to be willing to work hard). Like I said, no one asked for this.
intent is important you know
The problem I have with the second point is that people don't necessarily want unlimited children. Talking about it being unmaintanable in the long run treats this as a one-dimensional supply/demand problem, which it isn't (look at the japanese gov't's attempt to spur baby-making...).
I think you underestimate the quality of javascript (which is not the worst thing you could use as a scripting language, def better than using java of all things), and overestimate the role of Java in the "slowness" of the game. Just because the graphics look like they're from quake 2 doesn't mean that's all there is to it.
take Dwarf Fotress and try to play it on a P3. You might think it's running normally because it's hard to gauge speed in a text-based interface but... it's running really slowly. World simulation is computation heavy(probably a lot of cache issues too), no matter what way you cut it. Fun anecdote: my first experiences with DF were on a Pentium 3, and I played it like that for maybe a month before trying it on a fast computer. Boy was I in for a ride.
but if we're aware of this we can work on the cause (poverty) rather than the effect (poor education results)
I would think that this is primarily be because they're significantly more popular than the competitors, though, and not due to any bias on the part of Google.
A while ago there was a whole thing about how this wasn't the case. I think it was maybe for Picasa, among other things, where related terms were making it show up in the top non-advertised slot despite the fact that related websites were much more in use, leading to allegations of google manipulating the results. As said in other threads, this seems to be a fraud issue, since google presents their system as working one way yet manipulates it in a completely different way in some cases.
Thank you for pointing this out. The thing that matters in these cases is the point of sale, not the point of creation. If this passes, we could see things like car companies forcing dealerships to buy from overseas, however. That would be worrying for actual distribution outlets. Imagine your entire business being at the whim of manufacturers desires, even after you paid them.
because you've become de facto on call 24/7. Granted, a solution is just to not pick up , but that choice doesn't even have to be made with a desk phone.
should be a treasonable offense by public officials. String the state dept up, every single last one of them.
please check the definition of treason in the US:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
why are passwords not DRM? I mean most DRM is isomorphic to password right?
health insurance is a lot more expensive than 100 euros/month. Dunno exact prices but I think thousands might be more correct (for family plans at least).
n compteting standards
let's add a new one!
n+1 competing standards
Have extremely bad documentation, making it more or less impossible to compile it yourself (this is what a lot of business GPL sofrware does).
There's a difference between a free ride and a less expensive ride. Most people don't have the luxury of having their parents helping to pay, and just saying " take a loan " is what caused prices to rise as much as they have : Schools know the gov't is giving out the loans, so they raise prices without fear. Pretty much handing money over to the schools. It's hard for prices to stabilize if the consumers are given infinite buying power.
> Traditional unions (the ones with red flags) would crack down hard on performance based bonus systems. The reason that unions are against this sort of thing is that instead of being assured a certain salary, what would normally be your salary becomes some performance-based system based on completely artificial statistics, meaning your "base" salary drops overall.
I'm not saying perfomance bonuses are bad , just that 1) it shouldn't replace your salary (especially in high cost-of-living areas like SF , and that 2) It's a lot easier for the company you're working for to game the system than it is for you to attempt to.
The issue is fundamentally the same as other union issues, which is worker protection. Also see things like Silicon Valley companies agreeing not to poach on each others employees (thus lowering salaries for everyone as well).
I'd rather the base salary go up rather than go down, especially in a large company where I'm just a cog in a machine and "performance" is fundamentally a group metric anyways.
> the Supreme Court just held up that "first sale" doesn't count if the *thing* was intended to be sold to a segregated market, or sold to you by an unlicensed distributor. No, they heard the arguments for a case that, if it goes anti-first-sale, would mean that a sale in a foreign country does not constitute "first-sale". So this would just mean if you bought your car in China and then try to have it shipped to the US, you would not have resale rights
I think by employment situation he meant the situation of employed people, not the employment rate. You can live on minimum wage in France a hell of a lot better than on minimum wage in the US, and still get a decent amount of consumer protection.
There have been so many cases of people being exploited by companies because they are essentially forced to become contractors, instead of employees (with all the protection it entails). Why would you want to make that easier?
Chrome has had it for a pretty long time, Chromium doesn't (issues of non-freedom with the viewer plugin).
always having exact change for any transaction requires a good amount of acrobatics, especially if you live in places that still have penny-ful prices.
Laws don't work that way. If you distribute something in a certain area, you must abide by their laws (at least concerning usage).
While they are more reactive than proactive on that front unluckily(or luckily, depending on your standpoint), it's not as if the reaction treats exactly one case.
body scanners can stop more than just shoe bombers in principal. It's very much a unit-test philosophy: When you get a problem, make a test , and with some luck the test will have more coverage than just one specific thing.
Obviously doing nothing is not really a solution either. While locked cockpits stop a lot of things, it doesn't stop explosions from causing problems.
Fair use is when the usage is limited, notably concerning the "value" of the IP.
If Google takes Yelp reviews wholesale and puts them into search results, they're effectively reducing the value of the post, since Yelp will not get a click. Granted, there are arguments about discoverability and the like, but it's not some trivial fair use.
As someone who has had to deal with ADD for his entire life , I can assure you that it is not just a pharmaceutical ploy. I can barely write this sentence , and I have already been distracted three times. When I was in middle school, I was prescribed Adderall to deal with my ADD, and my concentration capabilities shot up immensely (going from 90 minutes to do math homework to 10). In high school I stopped taking it, and forgot mainly about it ( I moved to a different country at the time, and was having problems with the language and culture).
Now in the "real" world, I realise how handicapping this affliction is, where I'll take an hour to write a 2-sentence e-mail, and where I can't read through a research paper without taking a break every 2 minutes. Unfourtunately I now live in a country where Adderall is illegal, and the country I lived in before doesn't recognize ADD/ADHD in adults. There are people with worse problems, but it's still extremely frustrating to have the attention span of a goldfish.
As an aside, the best way I've found to deal with the problem is to say things out loud as I do them, I think that somehow the speech centers of the brain help with concentration (though I still tune out quite frequently in conversations). I'm less than comfortable about doing that with my coworkers though.
It would be nicer if, in these situations, people would gravitate more towards a std::sort or equivalent but consider the following: - People are used to sorting taking a while. All you need to do is display a spinning wheel gif that appears after you click "sort" and people won't really care in many situations - Businesses aren't all Google/Facebook/whoever. If you are working on giant databases, then obviously you should be trained for it. If you have a text file with 100 phone numbers in it, who cares how long it takes to sort, it'll be negligeable compared to the initial file read. - Computers have so much disposable time anyways, that a lot of "inefficient" ways of doing things are probably the better choice anyways , in respect to maintanability. I do think that it's a good idea for smart people to be available to write some code, but even if v1 is badly written by beginners, a well designed systems will have ample tests that would allow you to see "oh look, this guy is using bubble sort instead of timsort" , and allow you to iterate on it. Easier to optimized working code than make optimized code work.