It's pretty well known at this point that Colorado is having a "Green Revolution", as they call it.
Two weeks ago, the start-up vaporizer company a friend of mine works for hosted a job fair. There were a few other companies there as well. In total, there was probably 15-20 jobs at the most that were looking to be filled. The company my friend works for was looking for a few night machine operators (running the CO2 extraction machines).
Apparently, word got out and there were hundreds of people that showed up to apply for only a handful of jobs. Most of these people were from out-of-state and had moved here because they see an opportunity here. From the sounds of it, nearly every single person was unqualified to operate these machines, so in the end it really did take hundreds of people to apply for only a few jobs simply because the expertise required is so niche.
I'm trying to decide if that is better or worse than a company forcing you to work > 40 hours/week and at the same time exempting you from earning overtime.
I'd like to challenge you to wear that bluetooth thing all day long having a conversation with your needy wife or lonely mother where ever you are and whatever you're doing. These women will require you to be attentive and listen, so no cheating by calling POPCORN or something. If you're ordering from Starbucks, have a chat. If you're changing some poopy diapers, have a chat. Changing a flat tire, have a chat. Looking for an address on an unfamiliar street, have a chat.
At the end of the day, ask yourself, did it seem like those things were a bit more difficult due to the chats you were having all day?
(I know people who bitch about other people using cell phones while walking or even sitting, which poses no harm to anybody.)
Yes, people like myself who have had to dodge one too many chatterboxes that think it's okay to just step into the street in front of someone riding a bicycle. After all, Brenda has a new boyfriend and she met him on Craigslist... ewwww!
The fact is that people are too, "well that's only other people, that's not me!" and then they proceed to dial a phone call that could have easily waited until back at the office parking lot or whatever. The false sense of urgency people have simply because they can is getting ridiculous. I can accept that probably 1% of phone calls are actually urgent. What I can't accept is the 75% of calls that people think are ugent. What's the old saying, "Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part." Until it is determined that people will behave responsibly, other people will want to legislate that irresponsible behavior away from them. I don't think it has anything to do with "not being a part of their conversation" but rather that people would prefer to live in a world where they aren't surrounded by people chatting casually on a phone and being oblivious to the world around them.
This is the same FUD all those guys at the Microsoft shops always tell me. "You need to upgrade because it will be catastrophic if you don't."
Meanwhile, he's perfectly content selling upgrades from Win7 to Win8 on machines that do nothing but run an HP-UX terminal emulator running a basic inventory system. The irony in this is brilliant.
There is always going to be systems that were sold by a sales person. These systems will need to be updated. There are also going to be systems that were built in-house. These systems are also going to need to be upgraded. The difference between the two is who decides the upgrade path.
I've played some public golf courses that are adjacent to airports and rail lines and would otherwise be used for more sprawl or more industry. I like that there are places that provide refuge for birds and small mammals and one can go pay $12 and play a game for a few hours.
I don't play golf that much, in fact I haven't played at all in several years, but it's still a decent game and use of space... in moderation.
I've only flown over Phoenix, but seriously, that is excessive as are many lush courses that scream opulence and waste of resources. If a town wanted to have a public course, I'm all for it. Most of the rest are simply excessive.
The platoon player seems like it is becoming the next inefficiency to be exploited. You might have a guy that hits.220 against righties, but.312 against lefties. As long as you only put him in against lefties, he's going to be a.300 hitter.
I remember being super excited when all the hype for FF7 was a big deal. I mean, it had to be huge, it took several discs.
Then I "played" it. I realized that this was the edition where they completely ruined the series and I haven't played one since.
(I used "played" in quotes because the game basically played itself compared to previous versions. I mean really, why am I trying to mash a button this fast so I can give mouth to mouth to a dolphin?)
...err, wasn't that one of the selling points when they were still relatively underground?
Seeing this tape measure makes me think of a few other ideas. It would be nice to print myself a new custom fly reel instead of paying for overpriced crap sold at some trendy Orvis store.
Using a non-table element with table display properties is not the same as using a generic table element.
The HTML holds the semantic value, not the CSS. You use a table element when you want the HTML to be semantically labeled as a table (for, you know, tabular data). You use `display: table-cell;` for when you want the element to behave as a table cell, but you don't want the HTML to be labeled as a table (because it's not tabular data).
I live in Denver, and while I don't necessarily consider it to be a "typical" American city, I would say its size and the type of jobs here make it rather typical for a large city (with some exception).
When you mention options being greater in the Bay, I think you're overlooking things that people in the Bay have long overlooked. I would never agree that Denver has more programming jobs than the Bay, though, it might be possible that Denver has more programming jobs that are desirable to you.
I grew up in Fremont and was surrounded by the Bay way of life from the age of 5 to the age of 23 (when I moved back to Colorado for good). Granted, I haven't been back in 12 years now, but when I left it was because there were simply very few options for the type of job I was looking for. I didn't want to be a robot and I didn't want to work for a robotic overlord. Most of the jobs (at least back then) were working for robotic overlords. I was once let go from a temp-to-hire job that paid quite well because, "I refused to work 65 hours a week."
What I have found to be really refreshing about the job life outside Silicon Valley is that employers tend to have this sort of reverence for people with great tech skills. There have been loads of opportunity to bring Silicon Valley wisdom to the cow town that Denver is, and these opportunities are simply too competitive in a place like Silicon Valley.
Right now, I work for my family's long established brick and mortar business as a sort of de facto CTO. I have been primarily developing the e-commerce side of things, but also handle a number of other "computer guy" responsibilities. Even if it wasn't the family business, this job would still be a great one that I would enjoy because it's not just a "drive to office, sit there and code, and drive home" type of job. Some days I get outside and help with other areas. Some days I just go on sales calls around the area. The freedom I have because I work for a small business that reveres my talents is so wonderful I would never trade this job for any job back in Silicon Valley even when I am making much less than I did back then.
You might consider the Bay to have more options than anywhere else, but keep in mind that there are plenty of people have absolutely no desire to live in that pit of hell no matter what pay was offered. Everyone has a price, but the price it would take for me to go back to sitting on 880 for 2 hours every Friday after work is not a price many employers would be willing to meet. Since I don't have to worry about that in Denver, I have more options to choose from here than there. =)
Also, what's "necessary" is defined by employers. If I'm going to function as an office worker I'm expected to have a car, cellphone, college education, etc.
I think it's pretty sweet that I have none of those three things you mentioned and am still able to bring in a nice paycheck. Sometimes all you need is hustle, or as my dad says, "you don't catch a rabbit without shaking a bush."
TFA calls it suffering. I'm not sure that's the word I'd use to describe microbes, fungi, and insects failing to decompose. I mean, who is the author to say with authority the desires and emotions of these little creatures?
The bottom line is this is a tech website. It would be foolish to believe anyone here knows what they are talking about in this subject matter.
Right, because someone who has experience in all the intracacies of something like an MVC architecture is certainly incapable of understanding how to stick a seed in the ground and give it water and sun until it produces food.
See, the problem I have with music is that there always seems to be a conflict between it and whatever other noises are happening at the time.
I go with some friends to the bar to have some drinks and chat and have a good time. The music is so damn loud that I generally can't understand people well enought to have a conversation. Other times, I'll go to a show where I intend to hear music. That goes pretty well until all the people around me keep talking and I have a difficult time hearing the music.
This kind of product seems perfect for me. This way I can listen to music without all the annoying people around. Or, should I prefer, I can listen to people without all the annoying music around.
... they apparently have the explicit goal of enabling illegal behavior, tax avoidance, etc.
Citation please? Yeah, didn't think so.
Of course, I have no idea where you live, so I don't know what is considered illegal in your jurisdiction. There are plenty of legitimate uses of cryptos that are not fulfilled by existing monetary systems. Why do you think dispensary owners are starting to use BTC in Colorado as payment for goods? They're sick of being targeted by criminals because they carry massive amounts of cash on their person since they are unable to accept plastic cards.
I fully expect some crypto to eventually become ubiquitous just as Facebook has (poor Myspace... ) I don't see it being BTC or à or really anything that currently exists. I think there are simply too many impractical flaws that will prevent people like merchants/business owners from deciding to accept BTC or Ã. Ultimately you're going to have all these new processors come around and say, "for only 1%, we can convert your BTC revenues into USD and deposit to your business' checking account. As things continue, 1% becomes 1.5%, then 2%, then we are back to paying the same transactions fees the plastic card companies want and one of the biggest draws of crypto (from a merchant perspective) is now obsolete.
I did RTFA. I suppose maybe your comprehension failed you in this instance.
My point was that maybe these elephants weren't responding to the recordings themselves, but rather their similarity to real memories of real events that have happened in the past. The elephants aren't responding to the sounds themselves but rather to the trauma that is associated with that sound.
Picture yourself in an alien world. Suddenly, some creature comes up and starts attacking you and making sounds. A little bit later, some other creature comes up and makes a different sound but is friendly. Later still, someone plays a sound of the attacking creature and observers your frightened response. Language is irrelevant since you cannot tell the "difference" between one creature's "language" or another. They might be the same language, you have no idea. The only thing you know is that when you heard that specific sound, something attacked you.
It might as well be a bell and a milk bone if you ask me.
Try as I might, I am still looking for a brand-new 1988 Toyota pickup. I've bought two pairs of the same shoes at the same time before fearing they would cease to exist. I've been hoping some guy did the same thing with a few hundred trucks.
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To this day, I'm still pretty sure that nobody even knows where Denver is.
It's pretty well known at this point that Colorado is having a "Green Revolution", as they call it.
Two weeks ago, the start-up vaporizer company a friend of mine works for hosted a job fair. There were a few other companies there as well. In total, there was probably 15-20 jobs at the most that were looking to be filled. The company my friend works for was looking for a few night machine operators (running the CO2 extraction machines).
Apparently, word got out and there were hundreds of people that showed up to apply for only a handful of jobs. Most of these people were from out-of-state and had moved here because they see an opportunity here. From the sounds of it, nearly every single person was unqualified to operate these machines, so in the end it really did take hundreds of people to apply for only a few jobs simply because the expertise required is so niche.
I'm trying to decide if that is better or worse than a company forcing you to work > 40 hours/week and at the same time exempting you from earning overtime.
I'd like to challenge you to wear that bluetooth thing all day long having a conversation with your needy wife or lonely mother where ever you are and whatever you're doing. These women will require you to be attentive and listen, so no cheating by calling POPCORN or something. If you're ordering from Starbucks, have a chat. If you're changing some poopy diapers, have a chat. Changing a flat tire, have a chat. Looking for an address on an unfamiliar street, have a chat.
At the end of the day, ask yourself, did it seem like those things were a bit more difficult due to the chats you were having all day?
(I know people who bitch about other people using cell phones while walking or even sitting, which poses no harm to anybody.)
Yes, people like myself who have had to dodge one too many chatterboxes that think it's okay to just step into the street in front of someone riding a bicycle. After all, Brenda has a new boyfriend and she met him on Craigslist ... ewwww!
The fact is that people are too, "well that's only other people, that's not me!" and then they proceed to dial a phone call that could have easily waited until back at the office parking lot or whatever. The false sense of urgency people have simply because they can is getting ridiculous. I can accept that probably 1% of phone calls are actually urgent. What I can't accept is the 75% of calls that people think are ugent. What's the old saying, "Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part." Until it is determined that people will behave responsibly, other people will want to legislate that irresponsible behavior away from them. I don't think it has anything to do with "not being a part of their conversation" but rather that people would prefer to live in a world where they aren't surrounded by people chatting casually on a phone and being oblivious to the world around them.
Oh, you mean like a flywheel?
This is the same FUD all those guys at the Microsoft shops always tell me. "You need to upgrade because it will be catastrophic if you don't."
Meanwhile, he's perfectly content selling upgrades from Win7 to Win8 on machines that do nothing but run an HP-UX terminal emulator running a basic inventory system. The irony in this is brilliant.
There is always going to be systems that were sold by a sales person. These systems will need to be updated. There are also going to be systems that were built in-house. These systems are also going to need to be upgraded. The difference between the two is who decides the upgrade path.
Costa Rico, on the other hand, is best known for having a football thrown over it.
Not that it compares, but I always found this rather humorous.
Honestly, everything in moderation.
I've played some public golf courses that are adjacent to airports and rail lines and would otherwise be used for more sprawl or more industry. I like that there are places that provide refuge for birds and small mammals and one can go pay $12 and play a game for a few hours.
I don't play golf that much, in fact I haven't played at all in several years, but it's still a decent game and use of space ... in moderation.
I've only flown over Phoenix, but seriously, that is excessive as are many lush courses that scream opulence and waste of resources. If a town wanted to have a public course, I'm all for it. Most of the rest are simply excessive.
The platoon player seems like it is becoming the next inefficiency to be exploited. You might have a guy that hits .220 against righties, but .312 against lefties. As long as you only put him in against lefties, he's going to be a .300 hitter.
Oh, wait ... my bad. Wrong thread.
FF7 for the PC was a direct port. It came out a little bit after the Playstation version.
I remember being super excited when all the hype for FF7 was a big deal. I mean, it had to be huge, it took several discs.
Then I "played" it. I realized that this was the edition where they completely ruined the series and I haven't played one since.
(I used "played" in quotes because the game basically played itself compared to previous versions. I mean really, why am I trying to mash a button this fast so I can give mouth to mouth to a dolphin?)
...err, wasn't that one of the selling points when they were still relatively underground?
Seeing this tape measure makes me think of a few other ideas. It would be nice to print myself a new custom fly reel instead of paying for overpriced crap sold at some trendy Orvis store.
And pine trees tend to have a very long history of reproduction compared to humans.
Do you suppose the reason they are that superior is precisely because they have been around as long as they have?
Are you the guy that keeps polluting my markup with all the empty divs that simply have a `clear` class assigned?
Using a non-table element with table display properties is not the same as using a generic table element.
The HTML holds the semantic value, not the CSS. You use a table element when you want the HTML to be semantically labeled as a table (for, you know, tabular data). You use `display: table-cell;` for when you want the element to behave as a table cell, but you don't want the HTML to be labeled as a table (because it's not tabular data).
There are simply more options in the Bay Area.
I suppose for sufficient values of "option".
I live in Denver, and while I don't necessarily consider it to be a "typical" American city, I would say its size and the type of jobs here make it rather typical for a large city (with some exception).
When you mention options being greater in the Bay, I think you're overlooking things that people in the Bay have long overlooked. I would never agree that Denver has more programming jobs than the Bay, though, it might be possible that Denver has more programming jobs that are desirable to you.
I grew up in Fremont and was surrounded by the Bay way of life from the age of 5 to the age of 23 (when I moved back to Colorado for good). Granted, I haven't been back in 12 years now, but when I left it was because there were simply very few options for the type of job I was looking for. I didn't want to be a robot and I didn't want to work for a robotic overlord. Most of the jobs (at least back then) were working for robotic overlords. I was once let go from a temp-to-hire job that paid quite well because, "I refused to work 65 hours a week."
What I have found to be really refreshing about the job life outside Silicon Valley is that employers tend to have this sort of reverence for people with great tech skills. There have been loads of opportunity to bring Silicon Valley wisdom to the cow town that Denver is, and these opportunities are simply too competitive in a place like Silicon Valley.
Right now, I work for my family's long established brick and mortar business as a sort of de facto CTO. I have been primarily developing the e-commerce side of things, but also handle a number of other "computer guy" responsibilities. Even if it wasn't the family business, this job would still be a great one that I would enjoy because it's not just a "drive to office, sit there and code, and drive home" type of job. Some days I get outside and help with other areas. Some days I just go on sales calls around the area. The freedom I have because I work for a small business that reveres my talents is so wonderful I would never trade this job for any job back in Silicon Valley even when I am making much less than I did back then.
You might consider the Bay to have more options than anywhere else, but keep in mind that there are plenty of people have absolutely no desire to live in that pit of hell no matter what pay was offered. Everyone has a price, but the price it would take for me to go back to sitting on 880 for 2 hours every Friday after work is not a price many employers would be willing to meet. Since I don't have to worry about that in Denver, I have more options to choose from here than there. =)
Also, what's "necessary" is defined by employers. If I'm going to function as an office worker I'm expected to have a car, cellphone, college education, etc.
I think it's pretty sweet that I have none of those three things you mentioned and am still able to bring in a nice paycheck. Sometimes all you need is hustle, or as my dad says, "you don't catch a rabbit without shaking a bush."
TFA calls it suffering. I'm not sure that's the word I'd use to describe microbes, fungi, and insects failing to decompose. I mean, who is the author to say with authority the desires and emotions of these little creatures?
The bottom line is this is a tech website. It would be foolish to believe anyone here knows what they are talking about in this subject matter.
Right, because someone who has experience in all the intracacies of something like an MVC architecture is certainly incapable of understanding how to stick a seed in the ground and give it water and sun until it produces food.
See, the problem I have with music is that there always seems to be a conflict between it and whatever other noises are happening at the time.
I go with some friends to the bar to have some drinks and chat and have a good time. The music is so damn loud that I generally can't understand people well enought to have a conversation. Other times, I'll go to a show where I intend to hear music. That goes pretty well until all the people around me keep talking and I have a difficult time hearing the music.
This kind of product seems perfect for me. This way I can listen to music without all the annoying people around. Or, should I prefer, I can listen to people without all the annoying music around.
... they apparently have the explicit goal of enabling illegal behavior, tax avoidance, etc.
Citation please? Yeah, didn't think so.
Of course, I have no idea where you live, so I don't know what is considered illegal in your jurisdiction. There are plenty of legitimate uses of cryptos that are not fulfilled by existing monetary systems. Why do you think dispensary owners are starting to use BTC in Colorado as payment for goods? They're sick of being targeted by criminals because they carry massive amounts of cash on their person since they are unable to accept plastic cards.
I fully expect some crypto to eventually become ubiquitous just as Facebook has (poor Myspace ... ) I don't see it being BTC or à or really anything that currently exists. I think there are simply too many impractical flaws that will prevent people like merchants/business owners from deciding to accept BTC or Ã. Ultimately you're going to have all these new processors come around and say, "for only 1%, we can convert your BTC revenues into USD and deposit to your business' checking account. As things continue, 1% becomes 1.5%, then 2%, then we are back to paying the same transactions fees the plastic card companies want and one of the biggest draws of crypto (from a merchant perspective) is now obsolete.
I did RTFA. I suppose maybe your comprehension failed you in this instance.
My point was that maybe these elephants weren't responding to the recordings themselves, but rather their similarity to real memories of real events that have happened in the past. The elephants aren't responding to the sounds themselves but rather to the trauma that is associated with that sound.
Picture yourself in an alien world. Suddenly, some creature comes up and starts attacking you and making sounds. A little bit later, some other creature comes up and makes a different sound but is friendly. Later still, someone plays a sound of the attacking creature and observers your frightened response. Language is irrelevant since you cannot tell the "difference" between one creature's "language" or another. They might be the same language, you have no idea. The only thing you know is that when you heard that specific sound, something attacked you.
It might as well be a bell and a milk bone if you ask me.
Try as I might, I am still looking for a brand-new 1988 Toyota pickup. I've bought two pairs of the same shoes at the same time before fearing they would cease to exist. I've been hoping some guy did the same thing with a few hundred trucks.