I impressed the principal had the decency to apologize. He was probably a good guy, all in all, who panicked due to realizing there were things going on he could not understand or control.
With the number of self-misdiagnosed "gluten sensitives" we have walking around, who aren't sick at all, I really don't think giving the average untrained person (or the bizarre hipsters who think food sensitivity is cool) interpreting data. People with access to information they don't understand, or want to use for an agenda, don't end up making good decisions with that information.
As an American, I'm often ashamed of the way we act. Then I read posts from acquaintances in Europe and the UK, and I am immediately proud to be an American again.
Are you saying the people who joined in the 1970s are still working there and singing the song? I can't imagine more than 3% of the workforce at HP started during the 70s. That doesn't disprove your contention that "the people who actually made HP what it was" wouldn't act this way, but it does kind of suggest that you aren't remotely in touch with the current makeup of the workforce there. Care to elaborate?
This is absolutely right. It is definitely a fad, identifiable quite simply, because in the past, self-injurious behavior was most often a clear indicator of sexual abuse. Today, it's often being done in the absence of sexual abuse. This is a new phenomenon, but it's so new people in the mental health field are only able to determine this anecdotally, as it simply hasn't been happening long enough for there to be studies published.
Oh my ears are plenty good. As a player of wind instruments and piano I'm well acquainted with the natural tendency for solo wind players to revert to pure "just tuning", which is the natural tuning that comes from octave displacement of the ratios between notes in the harmonic overtone series, as well as the other tunings.
You can tune a piano or clavier or harpsichord to whatever tuning you want, just by changing string tension. Of course older instruments in some cases lacked full chromatic keys, or even had multiple keys for the same note tuned for different scales in older tunings. But the quality of sound modern instruments produce, and the obvious dynamic range of a piano, are superior.
Whether a C# is the twelfth root of two higher than a C is irrelevant to instrument quality.
You've obviously never been to a concert of "period" instruments. Most of them sound like shit, and Bach would have been overjoyed to have a modern piano.
Learn your 20th century history. Secular socialist/communist states were responsible for the murder of their own citizens in the high tens of millions, possibly topping over 100 million. If you include deaths through gross mismanagement of resources and criminal negligence, it goes higher, and easily eclipses the sum total of all those dead in religious wars through all of human history.
Quinine is the original homeopathic medicine and the exception that proves the rule. Because the term homeopathy, when based on the quinine remedy for malaria, actually meant same symptom (homeo-pathy, same pathology). Quinine made people cough, like malaria, but treated malaria quite effectively. Somebody got the idea that giving someone a substance that caused the same symptoms as the disease would cure the disease, which is insane, because they generalized from a special case. Then someone else started this whole "dilution" bullshit.
You're not confused...you're actually looking at things rationally and getting screwed up by the asinine terminology of the charlatans who take advantage of people who DON'T check for reviewed studies.
That's not homeopathy. That's a natural herbal remedy. There's a ton of evidence that various herbal remedies work, and various herbal remedies don't work. It's a different thing entirely from the "diluted" homeopathics.
It would appear you're not a web applications developer, then. AngularJS is a leading framework for web app development, and TypeScript is suddenly the most likely language to emerge from the pack of "front-end-statically-typed-languages-that-compiles-to-Javascript". If you're not doing web apps, you don't care, but lots of people will.
That assumes the costs of reusable HEO launch rockets aren't multiples of reusable LEO launch rockets. Admittedly, I don't know squat about it, but I'd speculate that higher altitude launch systems require additional engineering and face additional stresses that would still make costs higher.
It's from the Book of Enoch, sort of. It was rejected from the Christian Bible for a lot of reasons, but there are a couple of passages in Genesis that hint at the fallen angels (seraphim) that were probably the basis for the rock giants. Enoch goes into a lot more detail about it.
I interviewed many (7 or 8) people coming in the door for a database development position a few years back. Most of them fit the stereotype of an under skilled Indian immigrant whose recruiting company obviously misrepresented them on their resume. Our response to this was not to hire them. Yes, the recruiting agency had obviously shitty ethics, no, we didn't reward that with putting a warm body in a chair.
I have a very hard time believing there's not a company that could use you. I also don't doubt you're a good developer. But I'll tell you that I have seen (and currently work with) devs like you who have great experience, but refuse to do some things companies could really use, such as taking a transitional leadership/architectural role to rework an existing system built in C/C++, and rework it in such a way to make it possible to get younger developers maintaining it. By, for example, porting it to Java or C#. Having several years of C/C++ on my resume, I've been contacted by recruiters ad nauseum for these jobs. I can get paid enough doing things I like better to turn them down (and even the recruiters admit the employers aren't willing to pay the $120-$140 K needed to get a good C++ dev, but if you're in need of work, $100K is better than nothing). It might be fruitful to position yourself as such a specialist/consultant.
There are two camps out here apparently. In one camp, workers are paid and treated terribly if they're lucky enough to get a job. In the other camp, workers are getting decent offers and pay. If there's a split, as much as I can see it, the IT jobs such as network and system administration are legitimately not opening up and paying as well as they did. The software jobs are becoming more challenging, but mostly paying well.
What I'm trying to figure out is whether there are significant numbers of happily employed well paid IT guys and/or large numbers of legitimately decent unemployed or maltreated software developers. It's really hard to tell from a single slashdot post if a developer is 1/10 as good as he thinks he is...
Are you a software developer, or are you an IT person (network or sysadmin), or something else/combination? In my experience, in the northeast metro area of the USA, there are virtually no unemployed developers, irrespective of age (I know a guy in his late 60s who got hired without too much trouble recently). IT people, though, are having a much harder time getting jobs and improving salaries.
I doubt it. The NSA not sharing information with other bureaucracies was part of the reason they created the ineffective bureaucracy known as DHS. Nobody really knows *what* NSA does. CIA: Cause problems in foreign countries to pretext for war. ATF: Escalate conflicts with idiots and get innocents killed in shootouts and fires. FBI: Mostly legitimate law enforcement, with entrapment of idiots in "terror" stings. NSA: No idea.
The FAA is one of a very few government agencies that takes its job seriously and focuses on quality. Honestly I hate government, but the FAA has been effective in promoting safety from the mechanical/traffic perspective. I'd trust them to take IT systems security seriously and delegate the work to competent engineers. Almost can't believe I'm saying this, but it would seem they have good workers.
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I impressed the principal had the decency to apologize. He was probably a good guy, all in all, who panicked due to realizing there were things going on he could not understand or control.
I'm not saying the data shouldn't be available, just that most people won't be able to use it properly.
With the number of self-misdiagnosed "gluten sensitives" we have walking around, who aren't sick at all, I really don't think giving the average untrained person (or the bizarre hipsters who think food sensitivity is cool) interpreting data. People with access to information they don't understand, or want to use for an agenda, don't end up making good decisions with that information.
As an American, I'm often ashamed of the way we act. Then I read posts from acquaintances in Europe and the UK, and I am immediately proud to be an American again.
The hunt is on for Poor man's Ben Affleck!
Today, that's Ben Affleck.
Are you saying the people who joined in the 1970s are still working there and singing the song? I can't imagine more than 3% of the workforce at HP started during the 70s. That doesn't disprove your contention that "the people who actually made HP what it was" wouldn't act this way, but it does kind of suggest that you aren't remotely in touch with the current makeup of the workforce there. Care to elaborate?
When it's written by a gender and race balanced team, in a positive, multicultural environment, then it's good code!
This is absolutely right. It is definitely a fad, identifiable quite simply, because in the past, self-injurious behavior was most often a clear indicator of sexual abuse. Today, it's often being done in the absence of sexual abuse. This is a new phenomenon, but it's so new people in the mental health field are only able to determine this anecdotally, as it simply hasn't been happening long enough for there to be studies published.
Oh my ears are plenty good. As a player of wind instruments and piano I'm well acquainted with the natural tendency for solo wind players to revert to pure "just tuning", which is the natural tuning that comes from octave displacement of the ratios between notes in the harmonic overtone series, as well as the other tunings.
You can tune a piano or clavier or harpsichord to whatever tuning you want, just by changing string tension. Of course older instruments in some cases lacked full chromatic keys, or even had multiple keys for the same note tuned for different scales in older tunings. But the quality of sound modern instruments produce, and the obvious dynamic range of a piano, are superior.
Whether a C# is the twelfth root of two higher than a C is irrelevant to instrument quality.
Only because something is newer, it isn't better.
You've obviously never been to a concert of "period" instruments. Most of them sound like shit, and Bach would have been overjoyed to have a modern piano.
Learn your 20th century history. Secular socialist/communist states were responsible for the murder of their own citizens in the high tens of millions, possibly topping over 100 million. If you include deaths through gross mismanagement of resources and criminal negligence, it goes higher, and easily eclipses the sum total of all those dead in religious wars through all of human history.
Quinine is the original homeopathic medicine and the exception that proves the rule. Because the term homeopathy, when based on the quinine remedy for malaria, actually meant same symptom (homeo-pathy, same pathology). Quinine made people cough, like malaria, but treated malaria quite effectively. Somebody got the idea that giving someone a substance that caused the same symptoms as the disease would cure the disease, which is insane, because they generalized from a special case. Then someone else started this whole "dilution" bullshit.
You're not confused...you're actually looking at things rationally and getting screwed up by the asinine terminology of the charlatans who take advantage of people who DON'T check for reviewed studies.
That's not homeopathy. That's a natural herbal remedy. There's a ton of evidence that various herbal remedies work, and various herbal remedies don't work. It's a different thing entirely from the "diluted" homeopathics.
Remember all those ships kn a bottle? Same vein or challenge.
I disagree. There's a huge difference between the fine manual detail work on something like that, and having a 3D printer do it all.
It would appear you're not a web applications developer, then. AngularJS is a leading framework for web app development, and TypeScript is suddenly the most likely language to emerge from the pack of "front-end-statically-typed-languages-that-compiles-to-Javascript". If you're not doing web apps, you don't care, but lots of people will.
That assumes the costs of reusable HEO launch rockets aren't multiples of reusable LEO launch rockets. Admittedly, I don't know squat about it, but I'd speculate that higher altitude launch systems require additional engineering and face additional stresses that would still make costs higher.
Launch cost.
It's from the Book of Enoch, sort of. It was rejected from the Christian Bible for a lot of reasons, but there are a couple of passages in Genesis that hint at the fallen angels (seraphim) that were probably the basis for the rock giants. Enoch goes into a lot more detail about it.
I interviewed many (7 or 8) people coming in the door for a database development position a few years back. Most of them fit the stereotype of an under skilled Indian immigrant whose recruiting company obviously misrepresented them on their resume. Our response to this was not to hire them. Yes, the recruiting agency had obviously shitty ethics, no, we didn't reward that with putting a warm body in a chair.
I have a very hard time believing there's not a company that could use you. I also don't doubt you're a good developer. But I'll tell you that I have seen (and currently work with) devs like you who have great experience, but refuse to do some things companies could really use, such as taking a transitional leadership/architectural role to rework an existing system built in C/C++, and rework it in such a way to make it possible to get younger developers maintaining it. By, for example, porting it to Java or C#. Having several years of C/C++ on my resume, I've been contacted by recruiters ad nauseum for these jobs. I can get paid enough doing things I like better to turn them down (and even the recruiters admit the employers aren't willing to pay the $120-$140 K needed to get a good C++ dev, but if you're in need of work, $100K is better than nothing). It might be fruitful to position yourself as such a specialist/consultant.
There are two camps out here apparently. In one camp, workers are paid and treated terribly if they're lucky enough to get a job. In the other camp, workers are getting decent offers and pay. If there's a split, as much as I can see it, the IT jobs such as network and system administration are legitimately not opening up and paying as well as they did. The software jobs are becoming more challenging, but mostly paying well.
What I'm trying to figure out is whether there are significant numbers of happily employed well paid IT guys and/or large numbers of legitimately decent unemployed or maltreated software developers. It's really hard to tell from a single slashdot post if a developer is 1/10 as good as he thinks he is...
Are you a software developer, or are you an IT person (network or sysadmin), or something else/combination? In my experience, in the northeast metro area of the USA, there are virtually no unemployed developers, irrespective of age (I know a guy in his late 60s who got hired without too much trouble recently). IT people, though, are having a much harder time getting jobs and improving salaries.
I doubt it. The NSA not sharing information with other bureaucracies was part of the reason they created the ineffective bureaucracy known as DHS. Nobody really knows *what* NSA does. CIA: Cause problems in foreign countries to pretext for war. ATF: Escalate conflicts with idiots and get innocents killed in shootouts and fires. FBI: Mostly legitimate law enforcement, with entrapment of idiots in "terror" stings. NSA: No idea.
Funny, as a musician and programmer myself, I think Mozrt's various tafelmusik is ideal, since it was originally designed as background (table) music.
The FAA is one of a very few government agencies that takes its job seriously and focuses on quality. Honestly I hate government, but the FAA has been effective in promoting safety from the mechanical/traffic perspective. I'd trust them to take IT systems security seriously and delegate the work to competent engineers. Almost can't believe I'm saying this, but it would seem they have good workers.