Who knows. However, by NOT learning new skills not only did he ensure he wouldn't get a raise, but he also made himself that much less useful to the company and therefore that much more likely to get shown the door.
Yes, but experience in area Y != experience in area X. No one, no matter how good, is going to master a programming language in a week or even a month. As long as the new hire actually worked and studied in college, he'll be much better in area X than the old guy just trying to learn it. Yes, I'm well aware that once you know one programming language it's easy to pick up another. That doesn't change the fact though that it still takes time to learn it - it just takes less than if you had no programming experience at all.
Exactly - that's how union jobs work. People being paid based on age leads to no motivation to work hard (or to use the Office Space line "just hard enough to not get fired"). Why? Because they know that they won't get paid any more due to their age. If you want employees to work hard, you have to be willing to reward them for it.
It's entirely fair. A company doesn't just one day hire someone to fill a position - they have meetings and plan how many people they need to hire for what position and they spend weeks (or more) reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. The Senior Dev knew that they were looking for someone with skill X and if he didn't bust his ass learning it so that he could stay relevant, then he has no room to complain about someone else getting hired with skill X. Why do you think it's not fair to pay people based off their value to the company?
And I think it's ridiculous that you fail to realize that someone merely being a dick to a mentally unstable person is plenty of catalyst for violence.
I've played video games for many, many years and I can tell you that every violent thought I've had was inspired by people who were assholes, not any game, movie, book, or song. For some reason though society cannot get over it's desire to absolve people of the negative consequences of their actions.
I say we take every moron who thinks that video games or violent movies cause you to kill and we lock them in a room and force them to play video games and watch violent movies for 18 hours a day every day for 6 months, then return them to their normal life. Then we watch and see how many of them go out and kill people.
And we finance them how? Oh, you mean the drugs that Mexicans grow and then illegally bring across the border to sell in the US? If they stopped making it and bring it to the US to sell, they wouldn't be getting any money for it. But yea, it's the "evil white people's" fault that Mexico always has, and always will be, a failure of a country.
Yea, there's no victims to Social Security fraud, illegals getting in car accidents and not having insurance, getting free (to them) medical treatment, etc.
We already have enough poor people in our country - it's flat out moronic to want to import more poor people. Educated, skilled workers? Yes, let them come pouring in by the thousands. Uneducated, unskilled workers? We already have so many of those that millions of them are unemployed - adding more just means more of them sitting around unemployed and collecting unemployment or welfare on the taxpayers backs.
Actually, I'd wager that the burden on the health care system from indigent ER abuse from inner-city black populations
Nice, even when Mexicans are breaking the law and scamming the system, we still have to blame black people for our problems. It's nice to know that rednecks and illegals can come together and hate blacks together!
But this isn't about logic, it's about feelings, and reactionaries who would rather spend money preventing and punishing illegal immigrants than giving anything to said aliens.
WHAT?! Why the FUCK should we be rewarding criminals invading our country?
You know what would really fix the issue AND not involve the US paying Mexicans to not break our laws? Mexico spending time and effort improving their shit country instead of the government handing out pamphlets on how to illegally get into the US.
I disagree because, from my experience, Bing only provides two main results - 1) ads (mostly for MS) disguised as result links and 2) irrelevant answers - are the very far end of the list are things actually relevant to my search. Like I said, that's my experience.
"Blood libel" makes perfect sense? I never heard the phrase before yesterday, and I couldn't make any sense of what it could mean when I read it.
I'd never heard it before either, but it made perfect sense given what they're accusing her of. Because she said that whats-her-name was a target to beat in the election, they're trying to claim that she somehow made this guy kill her. Thus, they are committing libel (because it's print) over a shooting (you know the phrase "blood on your hands") - put them together and you get blood libel.
It is a fact that Palin put out a map with corsshairs over Gifford's district.
Yes, to mark it as an election that they wanted to win. Companies and politicians use that same image all the time to mark a business / personal target - it has nothing in the slightest to do with guns, and you damn well know it. Now, there's the much more rational explanation of the fact that Giffords is pro-illegal in Arizona and that due to everything they've gone through with illegals, someone's bound to snap and start shooting politicians who are pro-illegal (honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner). This is nothing but an excuse to smear Republicans because a person (haven't read much about him since I've been busy, but I've heard he himself is a Democrat) didn't like Gifford's policies.
I find Palin to be as much of a moron as everyone else. The difference between you and I is that I'm not going to blame her for someone else's choices just to promote a given political party.
I'm sorry, you must be using a different Bing than I do. Your statements regarding Bing's performance do NOT match up to my experience with it in the slightest.
Perhaps you're confusing bing.com with google.com/bing ? =)
Yea.............I don't buy this guys results at all. I've used Bing and Google plenty of times - I stopped using Bing due to it rarely giving me what I wanted and mostly just giving links to MS products as search results.
As someone who had a jailbroken iPhone long before getting an Evo, I can tell you that it DOES void your warranty. Yes, if you're lucky and you don't have an issue that prevents you from getting your phone reset to defaults, you can get around this, but it doesn't change that it still voids your warranty. But hey, who needs facts when you can troll?
Yes, Android supports it, but in the US they disable it unless you pay a monthly fee (usually around $30). However, you can get free apps that let you tether without paying anything.
That was 4 GB of data in one evening. For that month as a whole, I went through like 11.5 GB. As for what I was doing? Well you see, with Android, I can tether without being charged an extra $30-$50 per month for a measly 2 GB of data. As such, I use it on my laptop when I'm not home (work, grad school) and I also use the nice 700 KB/sec 4G speeds for bittorrent.
However, long before I started tethering my Evo, just downloading apps, doing email, web browsing, and the occasional youtube video I was going through around 3GB per month.
My question is, how little are you "doing" on your phone that you ONLY use 100 MB per month? My email alone (which isn't tons) comes out to way more than that a month.
Sure, usage patterns vary, but based on numbers that AT&T published last year, I'm solidly in the mainstream, and you occupy the top fraction of a percent of data users.
Yes, because as with the majority of gadgets, most people buy them to get in on the craze and then never use them much after the first couple of months. This is true for the majority of people with computers, game consoles, smart phones, and any other gadget - once the "cool new toy" factor wears off, most people stop using it. Only a small percent of people play their game console as much today as when they bought it 5 years ago.
Any carrier would be glad to see you go.
Well of course! Why would they have someone like me who pays them money in exchange for service when they could have someone like you who pays them money and then (essentially) never uses the service? That's free money in their pockets from you - every business would prefer if people just walked up, handed them money, and then left without incurring any cost to the business. However, I virtually never make calls on my phone (I used 5 minutes last month), so they make up for it there.
Must suck having a phone that doesn't DO much. Hell, I've gone through over 4 GB of data in one night using my Evo 4G. If you've never come close to 2 GB on a smart phone, it really brings into question whether or not you should be spending the money on having a smartphone.
Correction - tethering on Android costs $0 a month - all you have to do is download an app and you're using your unlimited data the way you want. See the beauty of an open app store? =)
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Who knows. However, by NOT learning new skills not only did he ensure he wouldn't get a raise, but he also made himself that much less useful to the company and therefore that much more likely to get shown the door.
Job openings or new projects at companies are usually known to the employees - especially if they have the word "senior" in their job title.
You sound pretty bitter - you don't by any chance happen to be the Senior Dev mentioned in the article, do you?
Yes, but experience in area Y != experience in area X. No one, no matter how good, is going to master a programming language in a week or even a month. As long as the new hire actually worked and studied in college, he'll be much better in area X than the old guy just trying to learn it. Yes, I'm well aware that once you know one programming language it's easy to pick up another. That doesn't change the fact though that it still takes time to learn it - it just takes less than if you had no programming experience at all.
And what mythical legal penalties are you talking about? There's no penalties for learning new skills in any field.
Exactly - that's how union jobs work. People being paid based on age leads to no motivation to work hard (or to use the Office Space line "just hard enough to not get fired"). Why? Because they know that they won't get paid any more due to their age. If you want employees to work hard, you have to be willing to reward them for it.
It's entirely fair. A company doesn't just one day hire someone to fill a position - they have meetings and plan how many people they need to hire for what position and they spend weeks (or more) reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. The Senior Dev knew that they were looking for someone with skill X and if he didn't bust his ass learning it so that he could stay relevant, then he has no room to complain about someone else getting hired with skill X. Why do you think it's not fair to pay people based off their value to the company?
And I think it's ridiculous that you fail to realize that someone merely being a dick to a mentally unstable person is plenty of catalyst for violence.
I've played video games for many, many years and I can tell you that every violent thought I've had was inspired by people who were assholes, not any game, movie, book, or song. For some reason though society cannot get over it's desire to absolve people of the negative consequences of their actions.
I say we take every moron who thinks that video games or violent movies cause you to kill and we lock them in a room and force them to play video games and watch violent movies for 18 hours a day every day for 6 months, then return them to their normal life. Then we watch and see how many of them go out and kill people.
And we finance them how? Oh, you mean the drugs that Mexicans grow and then illegally bring across the border to sell in the US? If they stopped making it and bring it to the US to sell, they wouldn't be getting any money for it. But yea, it's the "evil white people's" fault that Mexico always has, and always will be, a failure of a country.
Yea, there's no victims to Social Security fraud, illegals getting in car accidents and not having insurance, getting free (to them) medical treatment, etc.
We already have enough poor people in our country - it's flat out moronic to want to import more poor people. Educated, skilled workers? Yes, let them come pouring in by the thousands. Uneducated, unskilled workers? We already have so many of those that millions of them are unemployed - adding more just means more of them sitting around unemployed and collecting unemployment or welfare on the taxpayers backs.
Actually, I'd wager that the burden on the health care system from indigent ER abuse from inner-city black populations
Nice, even when Mexicans are breaking the law and scamming the system, we still have to blame black people for our problems. It's nice to know that rednecks and illegals can come together and hate blacks together!
But this isn't about logic, it's about feelings, and reactionaries who would rather spend money preventing and punishing illegal immigrants than giving anything to said aliens.
WHAT?! Why the FUCK should we be rewarding criminals invading our country?
You know what would really fix the issue AND not involve the US paying Mexicans to not break our laws? Mexico spending time and effort improving their shit country instead of the government handing out pamphlets on how to illegally get into the US.
I disagree because, from my experience, Bing only provides two main results - 1) ads (mostly for MS) disguised as result links and 2) irrelevant answers - are the very far end of the list are things actually relevant to my search. Like I said, that's my experience.
Yea, and Target should change both their name and their logo because they're going to cause killing sprees. Give me a damn break.
"Blood libel" makes perfect sense? I never heard the phrase before yesterday, and I couldn't make any sense of what it could mean when I read it.
I'd never heard it before either, but it made perfect sense given what they're accusing her of. Because she said that whats-her-name was a target to beat in the election, they're trying to claim that she somehow made this guy kill her. Thus, they are committing libel (because it's print) over a shooting (you know the phrase "blood on your hands") - put them together and you get blood libel.
It is a fact that Palin put out a map with corsshairs over Gifford's district.
Yes, to mark it as an election that they wanted to win. Companies and politicians use that same image all the time to mark a business / personal target - it has nothing in the slightest to do with guns, and you damn well know it. Now, there's the much more rational explanation of the fact that Giffords is pro-illegal in Arizona and that due to everything they've gone through with illegals, someone's bound to snap and start shooting politicians who are pro-illegal (honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner). This is nothing but an excuse to smear Republicans because a person (haven't read much about him since I've been busy, but I've heard he himself is a Democrat) didn't like Gifford's policies.
I find Palin to be as much of a moron as everyone else. The difference between you and I is that I'm not going to blame her for someone else's choices just to promote a given political party.
probably won't persuade iPhone owners to switch to Android
And who is to say that the iPhone 5 won't be dual core?
Didn't Lord Jobs decree that the iPhone doesn't need a dual-core processor?
I'm sorry, you must be using a different Bing than I do. Your statements regarding Bing's performance do NOT match up to my experience with it in the slightest.
Perhaps you're confusing bing.com with google.com/bing ? =)
Yea.............I don't buy this guys results at all. I've used Bing and Google plenty of times - I stopped using Bing due to it rarely giving me what I wanted and mostly just giving links to MS products as search results.
As someone who had a jailbroken iPhone long before getting an Evo, I can tell you that it DOES void your warranty. Yes, if you're lucky and you don't have an issue that prevents you from getting your phone reset to defaults, you can get around this, but it doesn't change that it still voids your warranty. But hey, who needs facts when you can troll?
Yes, Android supports it, but in the US they disable it unless you pay a monthly fee (usually around $30). However, you can get free apps that let you tether without paying anything.
Yes, but with Android you can do it without voiding your warranty.
That was 4 GB of data in one evening. For that month as a whole, I went through like 11.5 GB. As for what I was doing? Well you see, with Android, I can tether without being charged an extra $30-$50 per month for a measly 2 GB of data. As such, I use it on my laptop when I'm not home (work, grad school) and I also use the nice 700 KB/sec 4G speeds for bittorrent.
However, long before I started tethering my Evo, just downloading apps, doing email, web browsing, and the occasional youtube video I was going through around 3GB per month.
My question is, how little are you "doing" on your phone that you ONLY use 100 MB per month? My email alone (which isn't tons) comes out to way more than that a month.
Sure, usage patterns vary, but based on numbers that AT&T published last year, I'm solidly in the mainstream, and you occupy the top fraction of a percent of data users.
Yes, because as with the majority of gadgets, most people buy them to get in on the craze and then never use them much after the first couple of months. This is true for the majority of people with computers, game consoles, smart phones, and any other gadget - once the "cool new toy" factor wears off, most people stop using it. Only a small percent of people play their game console as much today as when they bought it 5 years ago.
Any carrier would be glad to see you go.
Well of course! Why would they have someone like me who pays them money in exchange for service when they could have someone like you who pays them money and then (essentially) never uses the service? That's free money in their pockets from you - every business would prefer if people just walked up, handed them money, and then left without incurring any cost to the business. However, I virtually never make calls on my phone (I used 5 minutes last month), so they make up for it there.
Must suck having a phone that doesn't DO much. Hell, I've gone through over 4 GB of data in one night using my Evo 4G. If you've never come close to 2 GB on a smart phone, it really brings into question whether or not you should be spending the money on having a smartphone.
Correction - tethering on Android costs $0 a month - all you have to do is download an app and you're using your unlimited data the way you want. See the beauty of an open app store? =)