I run an internet business and have no office or servers in my own state so one could argue I only need to pay taxes in Delaware.
Be careful with this. Some states are getting very aggressive in locating companies that need to register as a foreign LLC. If your LLC is in Delaware, but you and your partner(s) live in California, write code while sitting in your California apartments, use Internet service to California addresses for business, well, the state of California may consider you to be doing business in California and require their foreign corporation registration/fee.
The "HTML5 vs. Native controls" nerd-war is currently being waged where I work, and for whatever reason, emotions really run high on this one. It's much uglier than Windows vs. Linux or whose text editor is best. It's a fight over whose skills are relevant. When half of your developers are HTML/Javascript people and the other half are Obj-C/C/Java (native) people, and a new mobile project is proposed, every tech lead makes passioned arguments that THEIR TEAM should get the project and that those other teams' chosen technology is unsuitable. I don't even want to think about how much time/salary has been wasted arguing over this shit.
Naming servers or releases based on what's easiest for the auditor to audit is like a restaurant choosing its menu based on what's easiest for the janitor to clean off the floor.
Um, obviously they have not gotten the memo about the fierce hiring frenzy going on. If you have half decent skills, and are willing to move to a high-tech hub like SF or Boston, companies are fighting in the streets over you. Who in their right mind would program for free for a week as part of an interview? This company seems to think it's 2008 again, and that job applicants are banging down their doors.
In twenty years, these "developing countries" are going to be the leaders in science and technology (if they aren't already), have mature, productive space programs and transportation systems, while the USA is still busy arguing whether evolution is the work of Satan himself or whether it's simply the work of the liberal elite.
I visited MSNBC one day and got to sit amongst some people gathering images for news stories to post on their site. They'd often pull up the image then find a few things to boost up the saturation on. For example, when I was there, there was a stoty about a forest fire. They got the photos of the scene and do things like highlight the fire and make it brighter. This wasn't to be disingenuous, it was to make it more readable to the audience.
However you sugar-coat it, they're doctoring photos. Would it kill news organizations to simply take a picture and report it?
In what ways did the federal government get involved in your "day to day" life today? Not some hypothetical situation, or something that "affects society in general", but a real, actual "Shit, I'd love to do this, but the damn Federal Government is in the way!!" intrusion into your personal life that happened today?
The companies listed are located where their founders live. They personally don't want to commute or live too far away from their friends. I don't think the founders care so much about the workers who generally aren't paid enough to purchase homes where the company is located. Lots of companies are founded by people that live in Palo Alto and they don't end up commuting to SF.
Purchase homes? Who the hell even does this anymore? If you work anywhere up the peninsula between Sunnyvale and the city, I bet you aren't paid enough to purchase a home near work.
I live in a suburb. I can drive 5 minutes for fast food and one or two small sit-down places. If I drive 15 minutes I have a choice of about 8 different restaurants.
Too bad four of them are Olive Garden, and two of them are Chili's.
Suburbia is also where people who want some amenities without overcrowding live. My requirements are pretty basic - I want to live in an area large enough to sport decent Mexican and Chinese restaurants.
The twelve Baja Fresh and P.F. Changs restaurants all crammed into those strip malls don't count.
When developers build a subdivision in suburbia, they put as many homes in the development as they can to maximize their profits - to state the obvious. Any amenities are an after thought and poorly designed - usually it's just a "clubhouse" and a shitty pool that's too small to do laps in; such as some kidney shaped thing to lounge around to work on one's melanoma. We have tennis courts but they were built in an area that the developer couldn't put a house so he put tennis courts there - which are constantly being vandalized by the little shits who have nothing better to do.
Why do folks live there? Schools. To have their kids go to a better school.
You have written my pain. The lots out here are measured in square feet, not acres, and we're going to be moving to one of these hell holes because......... Ding Ding Ding! It's where the good schools are.
I'd much rather live in the city.. or way WAY out in the foothills, but alas, the only affordable places WITH good schools are all in McSuburbia.
So, you're stupid and self-centered for complaining about something if somewhere, there's someone who is worse off than you? So there's literally one person on the planet allowed to complain.
Regardless of whatever medical and biotech breakthroughs we develop, Earth's background radiation gives our bodies a hard limit at about 4000 years or so.
The tired "population density" argument always comes up, and can be easily invalidated. If it was just population density, New Jersey would be a Mecca of ultra-high-speed Internet.
The USA's lack of broadband penetration compared to Europe and east Asia has very little to do with population density.
Wow, that was a lot of rationalization. Let's examine the serious crimes you say justified the pilot's actions:
1. Being "Unnerving" to people aged 45+ 2. Breaking societal courtesies 3. Putting grandma in a state of unease 4. Potentially becoming a victim of assault by another passenger
Yea, I'd say the pilot exercised good judgment. Clearly this guy was a serious threat.
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Be careful with this. Some states are getting very aggressive in locating companies that need to register as a foreign LLC. If your LLC is in Delaware, but you and your partner(s) live in California, write code while sitting in your California apartments, use Internet service to California addresses for business, well, the state of California may consider you to be doing business in California and require their foreign corporation registration/fee.
Because business and commerce never existed before the concept of "limited liability" was created, right?
The "HTML5 vs. Native controls" nerd-war is currently being waged where I work, and for whatever reason, emotions really run high on this one. It's much uglier than Windows vs. Linux or whose text editor is best. It's a fight over whose skills are relevant. When half of your developers are HTML/Javascript people and the other half are Obj-C/C/Java (native) people, and a new mobile project is proposed, every tech lead makes passioned arguments that THEIR TEAM should get the project and that those other teams' chosen technology is unsuitable. I don't even want to think about how much time/salary has been wasted arguing over this shit.
Naming servers or releases based on what's easiest for the auditor to audit is like a restaurant choosing its menu based on what's easiest for the janitor to clean off the floor.
Um, obviously they have not gotten the memo about the fierce hiring frenzy going on. If you have half decent skills, and are willing to move to a high-tech hub like SF or Boston, companies are fighting in the streets over you. Who in their right mind would program for free for a week as part of an interview? This company seems to think it's 2008 again, and that job applicants are banging down their doors.
In twenty years, these "developing countries" are going to be the leaders in science and technology (if they aren't already), have mature, productive space programs and transportation systems, while the USA is still busy arguing whether evolution is the work of Satan himself or whether it's simply the work of the liberal elite.
+5 Insightful, for basically trying to start a language-war? Really?
Good programmers are good programmers, and idiots are idiots, regardless of the language or framework they use.
I never understood the practical purpose of prepending a "C" to each of your class names.
Today, it serves a very useful purpose: It unambiguously identifies a 1990s-era Microsoftie who can't change his ways.
"Skeletal?" Is that what "crappy, hacked up code" is called now?
However you sugar-coat it, they're doctoring photos. Would it kill news organizations to simply take a picture and report it?
So can "simulated," entirely computer-generated CP, yet that's also illegal. Explain THAT one!
In what ways did the federal government get involved in your "day to day" life today? Not some hypothetical situation, or something that "affects society in general", but a real, actual "Shit, I'd love to do this, but the damn Federal Government is in the way!!" intrusion into your personal life that happened today?
Purchase homes? Who the hell even does this anymore? If you work anywhere up the peninsula between Sunnyvale and the city, I bet you aren't paid enough to purchase a home near work.
Too bad four of them are Olive Garden, and two of them are Chili's.
The twelve Baja Fresh and P.F. Changs restaurants all crammed into those strip malls don't count.
You have written my pain. The lots out here are measured in square feet, not acres, and we're going to be moving to one of these hell holes because......... Ding Ding Ding! It's where the good schools are.
I'd much rather live in the city.. or way WAY out in the foothills, but alas, the only affordable places WITH good schools are all in McSuburbia.
So, you're stupid and self-centered for complaining about something if somewhere, there's someone who is worse off than you? So there's literally one person on the planet allowed to complain.
We know you didn't grow up there, because you're calling it "San Fran". :-)
Regardless of whatever medical and biotech breakthroughs we develop, Earth's background radiation gives our bodies a hard limit at about 4000 years or so.
$675,000 is more than most people see in their entire lifetimes, after taxes, rent, and other mandatory expenses.
The tired "population density" argument always comes up, and can be easily invalidated. If it was just population density, New Jersey would be a Mecca of ultra-high-speed Internet.
The USA's lack of broadband penetration compared to Europe and east Asia has very little to do with population density.
Wow, that was a lot of rationalization. Let's examine the serious crimes you say justified the pilot's actions:
1. Being "Unnerving" to people aged 45+
2. Breaking societal courtesies
3. Putting grandma in a state of unease
4. Potentially becoming a victim of assault by another passenger
Yea, I'd say the pilot exercised good judgment. Clearly this guy was a serious threat.
Where is the evidence that it does?
Probably meant to use "raises the question" which would be correct.
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