Many shieks give a lot to charity, if by charity you mean schools and facilities with the guy's picture everywhere and loyalty oaths before receiving largesse. It's how you build a power base. Christianity worked the same way quite some time ago, and Islam still works that way in poorer regions (that is: "Charity" in return for personal loyalty, not just faith in the religion).
Regardless of quality, would anyone want to drive a vehicle like that on most roads and risk getting rear-ended by someone texting and didn't notice (or care) about the situation around them?
Anywhere in town you'll have your security entourage around you, so at least you can fire the guy who rear-ends you. And if your supercar gets rear-ended on the open road, you're doing it wrong.
I'm unwilling to admit the GOP is a lost cause until I see what happens in 2016. You pretty much have to tolerate the conservative party being slow learners. If thy don't get it by then, it's time to start over (or just wait for the debt-collapse-reboot).
Many larger houses in the south have 2 separate HVAC systems because that's just easier to build than one larger system. Because it used to be a sign that you were wealthy, the "2 systems" thing crept down into far smaller houses than could possibly justify it as a status symbol.
You are a batshit crazy chill-addicted man, like many of my relatives. I wear a coat when it's 72! (Yes, I have issues here, but still, 72? I bet it would cost you half as much at 74. Ever heard of a ceiling fan?)
Sounds like a good place to build/convert new "highly over-priced" efficient apartments. Given how quickly the real estate market adapts to profit opportunities (often wildly overshooting the mark), I'd bet there are significant government hurdles to doing so distorting the market.
Except it's cheaper to not put in an AC unit and still say your average heat/cooling bill is X dollars/month which is cheaper than everybody else.
When I moved into my current place having no opportunity to see it beforehand (long distance move in a hurry), everyone from the apartment locator service to the landlord lied about it having A/C in the first place! It's a low information market.
I've been asked, as a senior engineer, though admittedly not at places broken enough to do repeated layoffs. (And believe me, you really don't want your manager to be outsourced to India.)
Well, Betteridge's Law of Headlines and all that. But don't confuse "wiki" with "wikipedia". Having reviewed scholarly journal entries published in a form where they are accessible to all, and all references are hotlinks, could only improve things. Some sort of discussion/comments associated with each article for Q&A, and forward links to all citing works would be great as well, especially works that refute the article in part or in whole.
There's a lot that can be done to improve accessibility without the result having an "in popular culture" section! This is a very old idea - as Vannevar Bush said in 1945
wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified"
Like I said, mash away to your heart's content; unless of course your intent is to persuade - then you're hostage to what each reader thinks of the cover of your book.
"Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google.[1] It was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit[2] at a meeting about corporate values in early 2000[3] or, according to another account, by Google engineer Amit Patel in 1999.[4]
You forgot the comma friend. Google's motto is clearly "Don't, be evil".
OK, here's the deal: if you don't learn how to write, no one will take you seriously. Hey, mash whatever keys you want to, it's a formerly-free country, but if you seek credibility you should make a bit of an effort.
But that's another discussion. HR should be about compliance, benefits etc. They have (as a group) proven themselves incompetent to hires techs or engineers and should not even be involved with the hiring process.
That depends what you call "HR". I've met plenty of full-time technical recruiters who understood the industry well enough to find resumes for hiring managers to look at, without mindless keyword filtering, or looking for X years of technology Y, or whatever.
The best set-ups I've seen: the company uses both a staff recruiter (permanent employee of the company who works with the same engineering managers long-term) and contract recruiters. The contract recruiters find prospects and are bonused when they place someone, so they're motivated to find anyone who might actually have useful skills instead of playing buzzword bingo, and will give candidates genuine advice on getting through the interview or whatnot. The staff recruiter keeps the contractors honest, and actually schedules the interviews and so on to keep the hiring managers form having to spend too much time on that.
I've seen this system at most of the big software companies, and it works pretty well. For at least 10 years now I've been able to change jobs when needed by just responding to a few of those recruiters who contacted me, instead of "sending out" my resume, whatever that means these days.
That wouldn't be as bad as the reality. Only the good people will leaving. The people who are better at sucking up to the boss (or whatever is rewarded) than coding have just found their life-long niche.
An engineer is professionally employed to game the system. If you ever make the reward higher to game the review system than to do his actual job, that's it for your company.
Yes, you will get morale problems and brightsizing and managers hiring ablative employees, but what's worse is: your engineers are now all focused on gaming the wrong system. Goodbye innovation.
It's not the spreadsheets - at least the spreadsheets allow people to base this BS on actual numbers instead of gut feel - it's the difference between a good and a bad CEO. Some CEOs actually earn their pay, mostly by seeing the folly of this sort of thing (and killing 2D animation did ultimately lead to Eisner getting the boot despite amazing entrenchment).
I can only agree with you 90%. You can do one round of layoffs where you stack rank and dump low-performing employees: one. That won't hurt the climate, because even though the system won't be perfect, the first time you do it (a) there really will be deadwood no one will be sorry to see go, and (b) there hasn't been time to game the system.
Doing this quarterly is particularly insane. People will be so busy gaming the system, when are they supposed to get any work done?
Comfort with reading from screens is an age thing, as is the habit of reading printed novels. I expect fellow GenXers to have a hard time giving up printed books, but for Millennials (especially those just now learning to read), screens are just the natural place to read text.
I think there's still a place for paper books. For example I have an annotated version of all the Sherlock Holmes that would be would be a nightmare in ebook format (each page has comments about the story on the facing page so that if you just want to read the the story
you can just read every second page). I think that the future of paper books might be have to offer something like this that ebooks can't do (for now at least).
Yup, the tech isn't quite there yet, but the writing's on the wall. Annotated books and glosses really require a larger page to make for sane reading, but all that means is we're missing the large-format eReader.
That's really my last reservation. I want a specific device: a bigger screen than most of todays readers, maybe 10" (because portable isn't my first goal) with a eReader screen (low power, long battery life, hires, but low performance) but otherwise a full tablet. Of course my eReader should also be my MP3 player (while I'm reading) and really anything else that doesn't require a high-power display.
Hey, he didn't say his goal was "better". Honestly, when someone says "my PowerPoint is better than your shipping solution" I sort of tune out. You need something fundamentally better to be worth talking about for a huge change in deployed tech, and even in the case of e.g. IPv6 vs batshit crazy NATting it's an uphill battle.
Well, if the brown shirts come for your family, exactly 1 gun is worlds better than exactly 0 guns. But, hey, maybe that sort of thing could never happen where you are, and that's really the only scenario where I see an illegal firearm being a good idea.
Selling a working firearm with no serial number just sounds so likely to be illegal for one reason or another at some level (local, state, federal) that I can't imaging trying it. Heck, I'd be worried about inheriting one.
Sure it won't. Just like all H1-B visa salaries get posted online, but "the information will most certainly not identify individuals". And yet, with a bit of work you can reliably determine how much each of your H1-B co-workers make, because enough information is published to data-mine.
Except in this case background-check companies will likely sell this as a service.
Slashdot Mirror
Many shieks give a lot to charity, if by charity you mean schools and facilities with the guy's picture everywhere and loyalty oaths before receiving largesse. It's how you build a power base. Christianity worked the same way quite some time ago, and Islam still works that way in poorer regions (that is: "Charity" in return for personal loyalty, not just faith in the religion).
Regardless of quality, would anyone want to drive a vehicle like that on most roads and risk getting rear-ended by someone texting and didn't notice (or care) about the situation around them?
Anywhere in town you'll have your security entourage around you, so at least you can fire the guy who rear-ends you. And if your supercar gets rear-ended on the open road, you're doing it wrong.
I'm unwilling to admit the GOP is a lost cause until I see what happens in 2016. You pretty much have to tolerate the conservative party being slow learners. If thy don't get it by then, it's time to start over (or just wait for the debt-collapse-reboot).
You forgot the link part of your link. Also, 700% of what? Morbo says efficiency does not work that way!
Many larger houses in the south have 2 separate HVAC systems because that's just easier to build than one larger system. Because it used to be a sign that you were wealthy, the "2 systems" thing crept down into far smaller houses than could possibly justify it as a status symbol.
You are a batshit crazy chill-addicted man, like many of my relatives. I wear a coat when it's 72! (Yes, I have issues here, but still, 72? I bet it would cost you half as much at 74. Ever heard of a ceiling fan?)
Sounds like a good place to build/convert new "highly over-priced" efficient apartments. Given how quickly the real estate market adapts to profit opportunities (often wildly overshooting the mark), I'd bet there are significant government hurdles to doing so distorting the market.
Except it's cheaper to not put in an AC unit and still say your average heat/cooling bill is X dollars/month which is cheaper than everybody else.
When I moved into my current place having no opportunity to see it beforehand (long distance move in a hurry), everyone from the apartment locator service to the landlord lied about it having A/C in the first place! It's a low information market.
I've been asked, as a senior engineer, though admittedly not at places broken enough to do repeated layoffs. (And believe me, you really don't want your manager to be outsourced to India.)
Well, Betteridge's Law of Headlines and all that. But don't confuse "wiki" with "wikipedia". Having reviewed scholarly journal entries published in a form where they are accessible to all, and all references are hotlinks, could only improve things. Some sort of discussion/comments associated with each article for Q&A, and forward links to all citing works would be great as well, especially works that refute the article in part or in whole.
There's a lot that can be done to improve accessibility without the result having an "in popular culture" section! This is a very old idea - as Vannevar Bush said in 1945
wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified"
Like I said, mash away to your heart's content; unless of course your intent is to persuade - then you're hostage to what each reader thinks of the cover of your book.
"Don't be evil" is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) of Google.[1] It was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit[2] at a meeting about corporate values in early 2000[3] or, according to another account, by Google engineer Amit Patel in 1999.[4]
You forgot the comma friend. Google's motto is clearly "Don't, be evil".
OK, here's the deal: if you don't learn how to write, no one will take you seriously. Hey, mash whatever keys you want to, it's a formerly-free country, but if you seek credibility you should make a bit of an effort.
But that's another discussion. HR should be about compliance, benefits etc. They have (as a group) proven themselves incompetent to hires techs or engineers and should not even be involved with the hiring process.
That depends what you call "HR". I've met plenty of full-time technical recruiters who understood the industry well enough to find resumes for hiring managers to look at, without mindless keyword filtering, or looking for X years of technology Y, or whatever.
The best set-ups I've seen: the company uses both a staff recruiter (permanent employee of the company who works with the same engineering managers long-term) and contract recruiters. The contract recruiters find prospects and are bonused when they place someone, so they're motivated to find anyone who might actually have useful skills instead of playing buzzword bingo, and will give candidates genuine advice on getting through the interview or whatnot. The staff recruiter keeps the contractors honest, and actually schedules the interviews and so on to keep the hiring managers form having to spend too much time on that.
I've seen this system at most of the big software companies, and it works pretty well. For at least 10 years now I've been able to change jobs when needed by just responding to a few of those recruiters who contacted me, instead of "sending out" my resume, whatever that means these days.
That wouldn't be as bad as the reality. Only the good people will leaving. The people who are better at sucking up to the boss (or whatever is rewarded) than coding have just found their life-long niche.
An engineer is professionally employed to game the system. If you ever make the reward higher to game the review system than to do his actual job, that's it for your company.
Yes, you will get morale problems and brightsizing and managers hiring ablative employees, but what's worse is: your engineers are now all focused on gaming the wrong system. Goodbye innovation.
It's not the spreadsheets - at least the spreadsheets allow people to base this BS on actual numbers instead of gut feel - it's the difference between a good and a bad CEO. Some CEOs actually earn their pay, mostly by seeing the folly of this sort of thing (and killing 2D animation did ultimately lead to Eisner getting the boot despite amazing entrenchment).
The key is you can only do this once. Repetition kills your company. And this seems to be a quarterly thing, which seems insane to me.
I can only agree with you 90%. You can do one round of layoffs where you stack rank and dump low-performing employees: one. That won't hurt the climate, because even though the system won't be perfect, the first time you do it (a) there really will be deadwood no one will be sorry to see go, and (b) there hasn't been time to game the system.
Doing this quarterly is particularly insane. People will be so busy gaming the system, when are they supposed to get any work done?
What is the 'demographic' of this trend?
Comfort with reading from screens is an age thing, as is the habit of reading printed novels. I expect fellow GenXers to have a hard time giving up printed books, but for Millennials (especially those just now learning to read), screens are just the natural place to read text.
I think there's still a place for paper books. For example I have an annotated version of all the Sherlock Holmes that would be would be a nightmare in ebook format (each page has comments about the story on the facing page so that if you just want to read the the story
you can just read every second page). I think that the future of paper books might be have to offer something like this that ebooks can't do (for now at least).
Yup, the tech isn't quite there yet, but the writing's on the wall. Annotated books and glosses really require a larger page to make for sane reading, but all that means is we're missing the large-format eReader.
That's really my last reservation. I want a specific device: a bigger screen than most of todays readers, maybe 10" (because portable isn't my first goal) with a eReader screen (low power, long battery life, hires, but low performance) but otherwise a full tablet. Of course my eReader should also be my MP3 player (while I'm reading) and really anything else that doesn't require a high-power display.
Hey, he didn't say his goal was "better". Honestly, when someone says "my PowerPoint is better than your shipping solution" I sort of tune out. You need something fundamentally better to be worth talking about for a huge change in deployed tech, and even in the case of e.g. IPv6 vs batshit crazy NATting it's an uphill battle.
Well, if the brown shirts come for your family, exactly 1 gun is worlds better than exactly 0 guns. But, hey, maybe that sort of thing could never happen where you are, and that's really the only scenario where I see an illegal firearm being a good idea.
Selling a working firearm with no serial number just sounds so likely to be illegal for one reason or another at some level (local, state, federal) that I can't imaging trying it. Heck, I'd be worried about inheriting one.
Sure it won't. Just like all H1-B visa salaries get posted online, but "the information will most certainly not identify individuals". And yet, with a bit of work you can reliably determine how much each of your H1-B co-workers make, because enough information is published to data-mine.
Except in this case background-check companies will likely sell this as a service.