They won't? I mean, I'm probably doing a rate increase next year, I'm at $100USD/hour now, it seems too low.
And of course I also don't offer a "warranty". It's per hour. I can't provide a warranty on somebody else's software. That would be insane, every operating system is full of bugs, and I'm not there to custom code an operating system. I'll give discounts when I feel it's appropriate, but that's my discretion.
(And sometimes they ignore my invoices. Handed a guy one last week for $300, got a check for $400.)
I didn't watch videos on the first desktop I ever used.
I didn't watch videos on the second.
Nor the third.
The fourth was the first one that could run QuickTime. And the video was pretty bad, because while the screen couldn't fit in my hand, my hand could cover the video window.
I don't want to watch video in my hand. This 15" laptop is a bit small for it.
An office with a door is FAR more important. I'm perfectly happy with no sunlight as long as I can close off everybody else when I'm trying to concentrate on something.
And no glass door or glass wall either. A solid door, with no windows in it or in the interior walls. I'm fine with a window to the outside, as long as it has curtains I can close if I want the glare to go away. And a lock on the door is an essential. Don't knock, don't call, just go away if my door is closed.
If I had to be in an open plan office all day I'd go insane.
From the article, that's not at all what's happening. It's adapting the window shape to the content, so a 4:3 video gets a 4:3 player box, and a 16:9 video gets a 16:9 player box.
I would assume you still get black bars if you fullscreen it and the video aspect ratio doesn't match your monitor's aspect ratio. But it's absolutely the correct behavior if it's playing in a window to adjust that window to the source aspect ratio.
You want to be sympathetic to a company that put in a system that didn't have a "cancel" function for an automated system that handled something as significant as firing an employee? A system that got him escorted out by security? A system that, when he was finally brought back weeks later, caused him to be shunned by his co-workers, creating a hostile working environment to the point that he ended up quitting?
Yes, I want the company dragged through the mud for it. In some countries, the company would have had some pretty significant fines for treating an employee like that, unfortunately we don't have employee protection laws like that available here. Mud-dragging is the best we can do.
Seriously, there should have been one click or one call that this guy's immediate supervisor could do to restore his access the same day. That there wasn't is a significant failure.
You really answered your own question, it's easier to just keg it. You could naturally carbonate in the keg, of course, but you probably want to drink that beer sooner.
And could you imagine the fuss if somebody found a yeast layer in a bottle of Buttwiper? They'd freak. There's no way a typical macrobrew drinker would understand that it's supposed to be that way.
Sure, it's interesting that this happened, but we still have no idea what company he worked for.
I did a bit of googling, Ibrahim Diallo is a much more common name than I'd have thought. I couldn't find anything.
This is not the sort of thing that we need to be talking about in the abstract. Sure, that's nice and all, but it doesn't really get the attention where it needs to be. We need to know the company.
The way you get this sort of thing fixed is to NAME AND SHAME. Drag that company's name through the mud, so that management at other companies will see the negative publicity, see that screwups on this level have a real impact on a company, and think about how their process works.
This story will be technical noise to CEOs. Having a company's name in the headlines for screwing somebody over like this will get their attention. Think about it, did a song about "An Airline Broke My Guitar" get attention? Nope, but "United Breaks Guitars" did.
The company needs to be in the headline for their screwup. Name and shame is the way to go.
Well, I'm not in Silicon Valley, and some days my "commute" is about 3 meters. I only go onsite if my client is incapable of physically pushing the button I need pushed, or if there's a hardware failure, or if I feel like there would be an actual benefit to having the client see my smiling face.
(Or, you know, I actually feel like leaving the house because I'm getting a touch stir crazy, but that's not usually the thing.)
I honestly have no idea why Google or Apple or MicroSloth or any other tech company would want that many employees in one place, and what I do involves directly making clients happy. Most of their people will never directly interact with a client as a representative of the company.
English spellings are complex because English, like America, is a melting pot.
English isn't French. That's an important distinction, because while France has the Académie Français, English has nothing of the sort, and accepts words from the entire world.
And simplifications are happening. For example, fast food isn't purchased at a drive-through, it's purchased at a drive-thru.
And then there's the example of the constant penis debate. Is it pluralized as penii, or penises? It's penises, of course, but some people like to go back to the word origin, which sometimes leads to bizarre results.
It's not a common situation. I honestly can't recall the last time I had to hand write anything more involved than a medical intake form, and the most complicated thing there is how to spell your own name and the street you live on.
So no, it's not really a "good communication skill" when virtually every bit of writing one does involves interacting with a computer, not a piece of paper and a pen.
And I say that it's not that valuable as someone who is actually good at spelling, someone who used to get fairly regularly asked "how do you spell x?"
Ultimately, that's the only thing that matters. Perpetrators of murder by the state are the worst of the worst, they're guilty of murdering a helpless person in cold blood, and doing so in the name of a government.
My favorite method is with a cast iron skillet that's almost glowing, and a coating of my custom spice blend on the steak.
Coat steak with spice blend, toss into skillet, pour on a bit of melted butter. There will be flames. Wait about 30 seconds, flip, more butter, more flames, 30 more seconds, and put it on a plate to rest for a few minutes.
It's best done outside or with an industrial extractor hood. Electricity won't cut it for the heat source.
The appropriate steak order is in fact "Scare it with a flashlight."
The more common term is as I'm sure you know "blood rare" but I've had that served overcooked before. "Scare it with a flashlight" gets the waitperson's attention, gets a bit of a laugh, and gets you a steak that isn't overcooked.
I'm not that much of a beef person, but if I'm going to eat it, I'm going to eat it cooked properly, which is to say barely cooked at all.
I'll be slightly more polite about it, but you are correct.
Literacy in 2018 is the ability to use the tools that you have available to accomplish the task. And for kids today, a spellchecker is an available tool, and there is no reason to disable it, nor is it in any stretch of the imagination cheating to use it.
I'm not going to suddenly start editing text in Windoze. I mean, I'm not going to complain that they started actually ending lines properly, it only took forty-ish years, but they finally figured out how to do it.
Meanwhile, TeachText became SimpleText became TextEdit. The Macintosh user interface evolved through many generations. And now, finally, in 2018, MicroShit figures out how to do what they should have been able to do in 1984.
Before iMac, I remember people referring to USB as Useless Serial Bus. It was an afterthought port added on to a computer, nobody took it seriously, any real communication happened over the printer port or serial port.
And that's how it remained forever.
Oh, wait. The thing Apple did actually ended up changing the way everything talked to computers?
Yes, of course it did. Apple might not invent everything, but Apple changes everything.
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She's been working for people and against Wall Street for years.
I'm still supporting Bernie in the primaries, because she still thinks capitalism is somehow functional. But she's one of the good ones.
They won't? I mean, I'm probably doing a rate increase next year, I'm at $100USD/hour now, it seems too low.
And of course I also don't offer a "warranty". It's per hour. I can't provide a warranty on somebody else's software. That would be insane, every operating system is full of bugs, and I'm not there to custom code an operating system. I'll give discounts when I feel it's appropriate, but that's my discretion.
(And sometimes they ignore my invoices. Handed a guy one last week for $300, got a check for $400.)
I didn't watch videos on the first desktop I ever used.
I didn't watch videos on the second.
Nor the third.
The fourth was the first one that could run QuickTime. And the video was pretty bad, because while the screen couldn't fit in my hand, my hand could cover the video window.
I don't want to watch video in my hand. This 15" laptop is a bit small for it.
Seriously, I don't give a f*ck about that.
An office with a door is FAR more important. I'm perfectly happy with no sunlight as long as I can close off everybody else when I'm trying to concentrate on something.
And no glass door or glass wall either. A solid door, with no windows in it or in the interior walls. I'm fine with a window to the outside, as long as it has curtains I can close if I want the glare to go away. And a lock on the door is an essential. Don't knock, don't call, just go away if my door is closed.
If I had to be in an open plan office all day I'd go insane.
(I'm so glad I work from home most of the time.)
From the article, that's not at all what's happening. It's adapting the window shape to the content, so a 4:3 video gets a 4:3 player box, and a 16:9 video gets a 16:9 player box.
I would assume you still get black bars if you fullscreen it and the video aspect ratio doesn't match your monitor's aspect ratio. But it's absolutely the correct behavior if it's playing in a window to adjust that window to the source aspect ratio.
You want to be sympathetic to a company that put in a system that didn't have a "cancel" function for an automated system that handled something as significant as firing an employee? A system that got him escorted out by security? A system that, when he was finally brought back weeks later, caused him to be shunned by his co-workers, creating a hostile working environment to the point that he ended up quitting?
Yes, I want the company dragged through the mud for it. In some countries, the company would have had some pretty significant fines for treating an employee like that, unfortunately we don't have employee protection laws like that available here. Mud-dragging is the best we can do.
Seriously, there should have been one click or one call that this guy's immediate supervisor could do to restore his access the same day. That there wasn't is a significant failure.
And then you make it personal. Classy.
You really answered your own question, it's easier to just keg it. You could naturally carbonate in the keg, of course, but you probably want to drink that beer sooner.
And could you imagine the fuss if somebody found a yeast layer in a bottle of Buttwiper? They'd freak. There's no way a typical macrobrew drinker would understand that it's supposed to be that way.
Sure, it's interesting that this happened, but we still have no idea what company he worked for.
I did a bit of googling, Ibrahim Diallo is a much more common name than I'd have thought. I couldn't find anything.
This is not the sort of thing that we need to be talking about in the abstract. Sure, that's nice and all, but it doesn't really get the attention where it needs to be. We need to know the company.
The way you get this sort of thing fixed is to NAME AND SHAME. Drag that company's name through the mud, so that management at other companies will see the negative publicity, see that screwups on this level have a real impact on a company, and think about how their process works.
This story will be technical noise to CEOs. Having a company's name in the headlines for screwing somebody over like this will get their attention. Think about it, did a song about "An Airline Broke My Guitar" get attention? Nope, but "United Breaks Guitars" did.
The company needs to be in the headline for their screwup. Name and shame is the way to go.
Nope, Germany uses QWERTZ.
And you've got it backwards on French letters... Half of young people do not use condoms for sex with new partner High rate of condom use in France
Well, I'm not in Silicon Valley, and some days my "commute" is about 3 meters. I only go onsite if my client is incapable of physically pushing the button I need pushed, or if there's a hardware failure, or if I feel like there would be an actual benefit to having the client see my smiling face.
(Or, you know, I actually feel like leaving the house because I'm getting a touch stir crazy, but that's not usually the thing.)
I honestly have no idea why Google or Apple or MicroSloth or any other tech company would want that many employees in one place, and what I do involves directly making clients happy. Most of their people will never directly interact with a client as a representative of the company.
English spellings are complex because English, like America, is a melting pot.
English isn't French. That's an important distinction, because while France has the Académie Français, English has nothing of the sort, and accepts words from the entire world.
And simplifications are happening. For example, fast food isn't purchased at a drive-through, it's purchased at a drive-thru.
And then there's the example of the constant penis debate. Is it pluralized as penii, or penises? It's penises, of course, but some people like to go back to the word origin, which sometimes leads to bizarre results.
No, they use QWERTY.
It's France that uses AZERTY.
It's not a common situation. I honestly can't recall the last time I had to hand write anything more involved than a medical intake form, and the most complicated thing there is how to spell your own name and the street you live on.
So no, it's not really a "good communication skill" when virtually every bit of writing one does involves interacting with a computer, not a piece of paper and a pen.
And I say that it's not that valuable as someone who is actually good at spelling, someone who used to get fairly regularly asked "how do you spell x?"
Murder by the state IS a crime against humanity.
Ultimately, that's the only thing that matters. Perpetrators of murder by the state are the worst of the worst, they're guilty of murdering a helpless person in cold blood, and doing so in the name of a government.
That's simply a matter of color recognition and force feedback interpretation.
No need for an oven for that, it's as done as I want it inside when it comes out of the refrigerator.
And I'm not a fan of grill marks, I prefer a flat surface.
Sounds overcooked.
My favorite method is with a cast iron skillet that's almost glowing, and a coating of my custom spice blend on the steak.
Coat steak with spice blend, toss into skillet, pour on a bit of melted butter. There will be flames. Wait about 30 seconds, flip, more butter, more flames, 30 more seconds, and put it on a plate to rest for a few minutes.
It's best done outside or with an industrial extractor hood. Electricity won't cut it for the heat source.
The appropriate steak order is in fact "Scare it with a flashlight."
The more common term is as I'm sure you know "blood rare" but I've had that served overcooked before. "Scare it with a flashlight" gets the waitperson's attention, gets a bit of a laugh, and gets you a steak that isn't overcooked.
I'm not that much of a beef person, but if I'm going to eat it, I'm going to eat it cooked properly, which is to say barely cooked at all.
Then the test is pointless and needs to be ended.
There are far more important things to spend limited education time on than rote memorization of spelling.
I'll be slightly more polite about it, but you are correct.
Literacy in 2018 is the ability to use the tools that you have available to accomplish the task. And for kids today, a spellchecker is an available tool, and there is no reason to disable it, nor is it in any stretch of the imagination cheating to use it.
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Exactly.
I'm not going to suddenly start editing text in Windoze. I mean, I'm not going to complain that they started actually ending lines properly, it only took forty-ish years, but they finally figured out how to do it.
Meanwhile, TeachText became SimpleText became TextEdit. The Macintosh user interface evolved through many generations. And now, finally, in 2018, MicroShit figures out how to do what they should have been able to do in 1984.
Idiots.
Nobody did.
I mean, until Apple did. Then everybody did.
Before iMac, I remember people referring to USB as Useless Serial Bus. It was an afterthought port added on to a computer, nobody took it seriously, any real communication happened over the printer port or serial port.
And that's how it remained forever.
Oh, wait. The thing Apple did actually ended up changing the way everything talked to computers?
Yes, of course it did. Apple might not invent everything, but Apple changes everything.
Heh, the round mouse was pretty, but it was kind of a pain to use. Apple does goof occasionally.
It could be fixed by popping off the colored bits, or adding a shell. But the standard fix was an optical USB mouse.