"Also kinda ironic attacking people's freedom to do business with who they want in the name of protecting free speech."
some people also protest against companies which help repressive governments with things like the censorship in iran and the great firewall of china. There's no particular irony here.
It disrupts their freedom to do buisness with who they want no more than picketing the entrance to a store disrupts their freedom to do buisness with who they want.
"can i get pregnant from a dog" however is still autocompleted. Seriously, I keep meaning to write some kind of program to itterate through all the possible autocomplete options to see all the wierd stuff which turns up.
there's already lots of things which aren't autocompleted. it's no big deal. as long as their search still works they can autocomplete what they like.
Though having got one of those 4 year pieces of paper (a good one even) I'm still of the opinion that someone dedicated could easily learn everything from it and then some with a year of studying on their own and a list of things they'd need to cover or books to read.
A friend of mine who dropped out of college chemistry became a better coder in 6 months than many of my classmates did in 4 years.
Sitting writing the fastest, most effecient, best documented and most powerful code in the world just isn't very visibile and looks a lot like writing any other kind of code to someone who doesn't understand the deep magic and the ways of the electrofaries within the computational boxes.
On the other hand I know engineers who work in a major semiconductor fab who are paid in the 6 figure range because their roll is visible and has very large effects on the bottom line. If the fab goes down it costs millions per hour in lost production and the difference between someone who can respond to a call, get connected, diagnose the cause of a full fab down and get things running again in 10 minutes vs someone who can get it running in 20 minutes more than pays their salary in the space of those 10 minutes.
furthermore one of the big weaknesses I see in our profession is that a lot of people are very poor at selling themselves, salesmen by definition are good at that and if they aren't then they aren't worth paying at all.
No, I'm a coder myself. I just don't have such an inflated sense of self importance as some people around here.
when one person can have as large an effect on the bottom line as 1 salesman going for a big contract only the best of the best of the best will do and they'll get paid in proportion to how much they're in demand.
when you have a team of coders just "good" is good enough.
You see the same phenomenon with big league sports: where a very small number of people can have a massive effect only the best of the best will do and they command high salleries as a result. the hundreds of people working in the background may be working just as hard but if you replace them with someone 10% worse it makes little difference but replace one of the front line players with someone 10% worse and you make a big dent in the results.
then get up and walk away if they refuse to pay you what you think you're worth. come back a couple of months later to see if they've slotted someone into your place. you may find yourself to not be as irreplaceable as you think.
Like it or not coders get replaced all the time and sometimes it can cause problems but a well run project should be able to cope with any of it's devs being hit by a bus.
That's an old argument and appealing to just about everyone since everyone can think of reasons why without them everything would go to hell and as such can convince themselves that their own job is the most vital and thus should be paid the most.
why without the guys who fix the roads nothing could get anywhere. without the truckers carrying goods to the stores then everyone would starve. without the guys who fix the sewers we'd all drown in shit.
perish the though that if you stopped working they could hire a replacement before your seat was cold.
and yet the fantastic sales guy would still be getting far more than you even then. Since the difference between a merely good salesman and a fantastic has such an effect on the bottom line and really good schmoozers aren't common the coops are going to be competing to get the best schmoozers to join their coop anyway and he's still going to get paid more.
personally I don't much like the idea of jobs you have to pay to get so I won't join you in your dream. If you don't have to pay to join where does the capital to start the business come from and why should the workers who take the biggest risk setting up the company get the same payout as the ones who joined years later when it was really safe? if they do get more then congratulations: welcome back to the status quo
A good coder might produce a few times his salary in profit for the company. (a great coder even more) but a really fantastic salesman who can get the really big projects or negotiate a 10% better price on a big contract can make the company more money in a day than the coders can in a year.
now of course without the coders he doesn't have anything to sell but it's basically a matter of being in a position where your actions have an immediate and massive effect on the bottom line.
Someone who can schmooze with the best of them and make the other guy tipsy enough to sign up for something really really expensive can be worth his weight in gold.... or even platinum.
And youngens had more respect in your day too I'll bet. And the colours were sharper. And the world was safer. etc
if anything younger people in the profession are more willing to work insane hours for far too little. It's the older ones who've gained some sense and know their health isn't worth the non-existent reward for working massive amounts of unpaid overtime.
I heard of a similar case from a friend who works in insurance. His company used to insure mobile phones back when mobiles were expensive enough to be worth insuring. roll on 15 years and many people who signed up for that insurance never canceled it. Thousands of people are paying every month to insure phones which probably died years ago and never noticing. It's apparently a great cash cow.
I hope you included something which turned that off if it added more than a certain number of hosts in a short time. otherwise it makes for an easy DOS, spoof packets and watch as your server blocks the whole net.
something which imposes a temporary block and can only block a limited number of IP's at a time would be good for preventing casual and script kiddie attacks though.
given that I'm not a 90 year old blind man I actually find that sentence almost as easy to read as the rest of your post.
News flash: English has no standards body so there is no such thing as "proper" english outside of grammer nazis fantasies. there is only english as the majority use it.
The oxford english dictionary is not a standards body, it has no authority to decide what is and is not english. If a majority of the population starts using "then" and "than" interchangably,"teh" rather than "the" or "lyke " rather than "like" and the oxford english dictionary fails to keep up with changes in how the language is being used then the OED is simply wrong.
Bonus points for "lyke" since it would just be reverting to and archaic spelling of the word. hint: crotchety old pedants of the past were probably complaing about all these upstart kids using "like" instead of the the propper "lyke".
Go back a bit more and simply being able to read silently and without moving your lips was unusual if not amazing. From QI, it was at least unusual enough that it was fit to mention though likely there were others like him.
Ambrose (338-397, Bishop of Milan) appears to have been the first person in Europe who could read without moving his lips, according to St Augustine of Hippo
When [Ambrose] read, his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we came to visit him, we found him reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud.
On a slightly related note, Ambrose does have the distinction of having been appointed Bishop of Milan when he had yet to be baptised, and was then duly baptised, confirmed, ordained deacon, ordained priest and consecrated bishop within a week, which must be at least one of the rapidest promotions in church history.
except at night when most of those plants *produce* CO2 to respire just like everything else. Only plants which tie the CO2 up in wood or which get burried and turned into oil take more out of the atmostphere than they put back.
So just "plants" isn't good enough. it has to be the right plants. And burning their wood/products afterwards leaves you back at zero whatever they are.
ok something seems really really odd with this math. reading the article I assumed the 800 barrels per acre wasn't running off incomming solar energy because the numbers seem crazy.
800 barrels per acre.... US consumption: 20680000 barrels per day.... 20680000/800 =25850 25850 acres = 40.390625 square miles Area needed for a years worth of americas consumption:14742 square miles America, land area:3794101 square miles So less than half a percent of the land area of the US would have to be covered for this. Frankly this seems far too good to be true given how crap bioethanol et al have turned out to be in the past.
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"Also kinda ironic attacking people's freedom to do business with who they want in the name of protecting free speech."
some people also protest against companies which help repressive governments with things like the censorship in iran and the great firewall of china.
There's no particular irony here.
It disrupts their freedom to do buisness with who they want no more than picketing the entrance to a store disrupts their freedom to do buisness with who they want.
"can i get pregnant from a dog" however is still autocompleted.
Seriously, I keep meaning to write some kind of program to itterate through all the possible autocomplete options to see all the wierd stuff which turns up.
there's already lots of things which aren't autocompleted.
it's no big deal.
as long as their search still works they can autocomplete what they like.
And
"that ad is not funny"
is also a fairly straightforwrd fact.
on the scale of hilarity it falls somewhere in the thin section between rape and knifepoint and knock knock jokes.
he's pretty damn bright so he probably could have but was finding it soul crushing.
Though having got one of those 4 year pieces of paper (a good one even) I'm still of the opinion that someone dedicated could easily learn everything from it and then some with a year of studying on their own and a list of things they'd need to cover or books to read.
A friend of mine who dropped out of college chemistry became a better coder in 6 months than many of my classmates did in 4 years.
the point is " a technical person" not "that particular technical person".
The more replaceable you are the lower you'll be paid.
visibility and leverage.
Sitting writing the fastest, most effecient, best documented and most powerful code in the world just isn't very visibile and looks a lot like writing any other kind of code to someone who doesn't understand the deep magic and the ways of the electrofaries within the computational boxes.
On the other hand I know engineers who work in a major semiconductor fab who are paid in the 6 figure range because their roll is visible and has very large effects on the bottom line.
If the fab goes down it costs millions per hour in lost production and the difference between someone who can respond to a call, get connected, diagnose the cause of a full fab down and get things running again in 10 minutes vs someone who can get it running in 20 minutes more than pays their salary in the space of those 10 minutes.
furthermore one of the big weaknesses I see in our profession is that a lot of people are very poor at selling themselves, salesmen by definition are good at that and if they aren't then they aren't worth paying at all.
No, I'm a coder myself.
I just don't have such an inflated sense of self importance as some people around here.
when one person can have as large an effect on the bottom line as 1 salesman going for a big contract only the best of the best of the best will do and they'll get paid in proportion to how much they're in demand.
when you have a team of coders just "good" is good enough.
You see the same phenomenon with big league sports: where a very small number of people can have a massive effect only the best of the best will do and they command high salleries as a result.
the hundreds of people working in the background may be working just as hard but if you replace them with someone 10% worse it makes little difference but replace one of the front line players with someone 10% worse and you make a big dent in the results.
then get up and walk away if they refuse to pay you what you think you're worth.
come back a couple of months later to see if they've slotted someone into your place.
you may find yourself to not be as irreplaceable as you think.
Like it or not coders get replaced all the time and sometimes it can cause problems but a well run project should be able to cope with any of it's devs being hit by a bus.
That's an old argument and appealing to just about everyone since everyone can think of reasons why without them everything would go to hell and as such can convince themselves that their own job is the most vital and thus should be paid the most.
why without the guys who fix the roads nothing could get anywhere.
without the truckers carrying goods to the stores then everyone would starve.
without the guys who fix the sewers we'd all drown in shit.
perish the though that if you stopped working they could hire a replacement before your seat was cold.
and yet the fantastic sales guy would still be getting far more than you even then.
Since the difference between a merely good salesman and a fantastic has such an effect on the bottom line and really good schmoozers aren't common the coops are going to be competing to get the best schmoozers to join their coop anyway and he's still going to get paid more.
personally I don't much like the idea of jobs you have to pay to get so I won't join you in your dream.
If you don't have to pay to join where does the capital to start the business come from and why should the workers who take the biggest risk setting up the company get the same payout as the ones who joined years later when it was really safe? if they do get more then congratulations: welcome back to the status quo
A good coder might produce a few times his salary in profit for the company. (a great coder even more) but a really fantastic salesman who can get the really big projects or negotiate a 10% better price on a big contract can make the company more money in a day than the coders can in a year.
now of course without the coders he doesn't have anything to sell but it's basically a matter of being in a position where your actions have an immediate and massive effect on the bottom line.
Someone who can schmooze with the best of them and make the other guy tipsy enough to sign up for something really really expensive can be worth his weight in gold.... or even platinum.
And youngens had more respect in your day too I'll bet.
And the colours were sharper.
And the world was safer.
etc
if anything younger people in the profession are more willing to work insane hours for far too little.
It's the older ones who've gained some sense and know their health isn't worth the non-existent reward for working massive amounts of unpaid overtime.
right... on a related note the sky is only blue... in my opinion.
The 10:10 ads was a monty python style joke
no.... no it's not.
for one thing monty python is actually funny.
That's just deeply creepy and threatening.
It is a tax loophole basically for the common man.
ah.
that explains why they're stamping down on it.
Out of interest is there any solid definition of what a 'reasonable' amount is in this context?
I heard of a similar case from a friend who works in insurance.
His company used to insure mobile phones back when mobiles were expensive enough to be worth insuring.
roll on 15 years and many people who signed up for that insurance never canceled it.
Thousands of people are paying every month to insure phones which probably died years ago and never noticing.
It's apparently a great cash cow.
[citation needed]
either your solar constant is way off or magic is now real.
I hope you included something which turned that off if it added more than a certain number of hosts in a short time.
otherwise it makes for an easy DOS, spoof packets and watch as your server blocks the whole net.
something which imposes a temporary block and can only block a limited number of IP's at a time would be good for preventing casual and script kiddie attacks though.
given that I'm not a 90 year old blind man I actually find that sentence almost as easy to read as the rest of your post.
News flash:
English has no standards body so there is no such thing as "proper" english outside of grammer nazis fantasies.
there is only english as the majority use it.
The oxford english dictionary is not a standards body, it has no authority to decide what is and is not english. ,"teh" rather than "the" or "lyke " rather than "like" and the oxford english dictionary fails to keep up with changes in how the language is being used then the OED is simply wrong.
If a majority of the population starts using "then" and "than" interchangably
Bonus points for "lyke" since it would just be reverting to and archaic spelling of the word.
hint: crotchety old pedants of the past were probably complaing about all these upstart kids using "like" instead of the the propper "lyke".
sorry to burst your pedantic bubble.
Go back a bit more and simply being able to read silently and without moving your lips was unusual if not amazing.
From QI, it was at least unusual enough that it was fit to mention though likely there were others like him.
Ambrose (338-397, Bishop of Milan) appears to have been the first person in Europe who could read without moving his lips, according to St Augustine of Hippo
When [Ambrose] read, his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we came to visit him, we found him reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud.
On a slightly related note, Ambrose does have the distinction of having been appointed Bishop of Milan when he had yet to be baptised, and was then duly baptised, confirmed, ordained deacon, ordained priest and consecrated bishop within a week, which must be at least one of the rapidest promotions in church history.
except at night when most of those plants *produce* CO2 to respire just like everything else.
Only plants which tie the CO2 up in wood or which get burried and turned into oil take more out of the atmostphere than they put back.
So just "plants" isn't good enough.
it has to be the right plants.
And burning their wood/products afterwards leaves you back at zero whatever they are.
ok something seems really really odd with this math.
reading the article I assumed the 800 barrels per acre wasn't running off incomming solar energy because the numbers seem crazy.
800 barrels per acre....
US consumption: 20680000 barrels per day....
20680000/800 =25850
25850 acres = 40.390625 square miles
Area needed for a years worth of americas consumption:14742 square miles
America, land area:3794101 square miles
So less than half a percent of the land area of the US would have to be covered for this.
Frankly this seems far too good to be true given how crap bioethanol et al have turned out to be in the past.
Ah, what a balance, with everything falling on the "sod off, I'm going down to the pub for a drink" side of protecting your children.
yes!
hungry metal eating termites!
of course they might eat the skip too so RUN!