This is how smart people work and not how governments or administrations go about things. Their solution is throwing money at it until the problem goes away, ie. it has shifted to something else, which somebody else has to fix. And don't forget, even in an environment similar to yours, there are people who fix problems and who embrace change, like yourself, and people who can't deal with that kind of effort, pressure and mental flexibility. You need them too, but not to solve problems. I have worked with companies that used these kind of people to find solutions, when instead they created more problems. In the end it boils down (again) to competent management. You seem to have a decent boss. Congrats.
... a free Linux distribution built upon the decades of evolution of the Linux operating system and the contributions of thousands of volunteers on the GNOME project. The beauty of Flatpak is the ability to bridge app creators and Linux distributions using a universal framework, making it possible to bring this kind of software to operating systems that encourage open collaboration...
This is so full of bile, it's amazing, it's like making Slashdot great again. The buzz makes the head spin: * "thousands of volunteers on the GNOME project" (Gnome? Really?) * "bridge app creators and Linux distributions" Please stop using the word apps! Whatever happened to programmers? When did they become creators? * "a universal framework, making it possible to bring this kind of software to operating systems that encourage open collaboration" Please stop smoking this stuff, it's already killing your ability to think clearly!
Honestly, you're promoting something called "Flatpak" and never bother to mention what it actually is or does in any meaningful way. Congratulations, Slashdot is now officially unusable. *sigh*
The company doesn't feel a need to do anything. It's a way for management and/or the owners to raise equity capital and/or sell parts of their share where a private sale isn't happening for whatever reason.
The pressure public trading and enhanced scrutiny by financial analysts, who rarely understand the business the company is in, put on the company is often either not understood by management or accepted as a requirement to raising equity. The problem usually is the incredibly stupid short termism exhibited by the markets (well, financial analysts) which leads to fewer, if at all, strategic decision making.
Unless your expansion plans require vast amounts of capital for your successful business an IPO doesn't really make much business sense IMHO.
Spectacularly flawed design and an incredibly obvious attack vector. And now Google, in their endless wisdom, appear to think that making BK a public successful troll instead of admitting that they have a faulty product. Marketing at its best, bravo!
Often it's a case of just taking the responsibility to make a decision. [...] They can then go away, confident that if it all goes tits up, I'll be there to pick up the pieces and protect them from the shit heading their way.
Thank you, you have condensed a large chunk of management literature into a paragraph. If I were to further reduce it: Be human and recognise that everyone else is too.
Yes, it all sounds trivial and will neither sell any books nor book me (or you) a TED talk, but this is the really hard stuff. You can learn about economics and business administration, read the text books, do case studies and attend all the motivational seminars, trainings and retreats, but as long as you don't realise that people are complex, more so than technology or processes, and have some empathy you will focus on the wrong things and eventually fail as a manager.
So yeah, solar industry jobs wil probably follow a similar pattern. A huge boom, then trailing off. The days of thinking that a person is going to do one job, the same job, live in the same town in the same houhse your entire life, and not have to learn to do anything else is no longer a rational idea. Things change too quickly.
You're absolutely right, it's just rather unfortunate that the (vocational) education system doesn't prepare people to be this flexible. Apart from hard skills which can be trained, look at how many people and even regions still identify as miners or steel workers. And it's not just in the US, you can see this in other countries like the UK or Germany too. It still takes an enormous effort to retrain, reskill and mentally repurpose communities that were focused on one specific industry for a long time.
So that leaves the "massive financial and tech hub" you describe in England. How many financial companies are going to want to maintain, never mind expand, their presence in a country which is allowed to actively monitor their most secure communications? If I were CEO of a global financial company I would be very concerned about the backlash from my customers if my company were to remain in such a country.
It doesn't matter WHY it affects them differently, except as trivia.
You haven't followed research into metabolic syndrome and the microbiome in the last decade and a half or so I presume? "Why" is the most important question when it comes to IBD and metabolic syndrome, because there doesn't appear to be a simple deterministic correlation. People react differently to the same kind of food intake while on the same activity level.
Unless you intend to specifically analyse, combat and treat individual microbiomes in the stomach of every patient, you're not going to be able to do much else.
That's exactly the point of this kind of research..
You're missing the point. This is about explaining why the same amount of food (or energy) intake affects people differently. Research into metabolic syndrome has shown that there is no simple relation: eat less -> lose weight -> get healthy. Once you know what influences weight gain or loss, given a certain amount of food intake you can adjust for other parameters.
There was a poll a month or so back that showed that 97% of people in Britain were opposed to this, when they knew what it contained, but only around 5-10% were even aware that it was being passed.
That's why Brexit is such a beauty, even if it never happens a lot of bad legislation will pass unnoticed.
and for all those people who have such hate for systemd.... How many actually had used init.d?
You don't necessarily have to have experience with sysvinit to hate systemd. For many it is making such a compelling argument on its own that you don't need to compare it to other systems.
...give Apple a graceful way to say FU to the EU...
But what's that worth? Apple employs what, 5000 to 6000 people on their campus in Ireland, so losing those may impact the Dublin economy in the very short term but will do absolutely nothing to the EU. It's not like the company was paying any meaningful amount of taxes anyway. The economic loss on the whole would be short term and negligible.
They were suffering before the UK joined the EU, suffered through complete neglect by the central government during the past decades and will now keep suffering the hardship. And they will in all likelihood continue to think this is all the EU's fault, because that's what populist politicians tell them. They will believe it because they lack a proper education. It's not funny, it's thoroughly depressing and a trend I see spreading throughout the western world.:-(
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This is how smart people work and not how governments or administrations go about things. Their solution is throwing money at it until the problem goes away, ie. it has shifted to something else, which somebody else has to fix. And don't forget, even in an environment similar to yours, there are people who fix problems and who embrace change, like yourself, and people who can't deal with that kind of effort, pressure and mental flexibility. You need them too, but not to solve problems. I have worked with companies that used these kind of people to find solutions, when instead they created more problems. In the end it boils down (again) to competent management. You seem to have a decent boss. Congrats.
This is so full of bile, it's amazing, it's like making Slashdot great again. The buzz makes the head spin:
* "thousands of volunteers on the GNOME project" (Gnome? Really?)
* "bridge app creators and Linux distributions" Please stop using the word apps! Whatever happened to programmers? When did they become creators?
* "a universal framework, making it possible to bring this kind of software to operating systems that encourage open collaboration" Please stop smoking this stuff, it's already killing your ability to think clearly!
Honestly, you're promoting something called "Flatpak" and never bother to mention what it actually is or does in any meaningful way. Congratulations, Slashdot is now officially unusable. *sigh*
I am really sorry to say this, but you are making far too much sense for anyone in a position to change things to listen to you. :-(
That's pretty much what they're doing now.
But, but it doesn't have stories..... ;-)
The company doesn't feel a need to do anything. It's a way for management and/or the owners to raise equity capital and/or sell parts of their share where a private sale isn't happening for whatever reason.
The pressure public trading and enhanced scrutiny by financial analysts, who rarely understand the business the company is in, put on the company is often either not understood by management or accepted as a requirement to raising equity. The problem usually is the incredibly stupid short termism exhibited by the markets (well, financial analysts) which leads to fewer, if at all, strategic decision making.
Unless your expansion plans require vast amounts of capital for your successful business an IPO doesn't really make much business sense IMHO.
Spectacularly flawed design and an incredibly obvious attack vector. And now Google, in their endless wisdom, appear to think that making BK a public successful troll instead of admitting that they have a faulty product. Marketing at its best, bravo!
Isn't anyone who develops using Drupal or PHP into BSDM?
Not a problem since their are almost all male and obviously masochist.
No, that this is the issue is the problem.
And only identifiable in hindsight.
This! You nailed it.
Thank you, you have condensed a large chunk of management literature into a paragraph. If I were to further reduce it: Be human and recognise that everyone else is too.
Yes, it all sounds trivial and will neither sell any books nor book me (or you) a TED talk, but this is the really hard stuff. You can learn about economics and business administration, read the text books, do case studies and attend all the motivational seminars, trainings and retreats, but as long as you don't realise that people are complex, more so than technology or processes, and have some empathy you will focus on the wrong things and eventually fail as a manager.
You're absolutely right, it's just rather unfortunate that the (vocational) education system doesn't prepare people to be this flexible. Apart from hard skills which can be trained, look at how many people and even regions still identify as miners or steel workers. And it's not just in the US, you can see this in other countries like the UK or Germany too. It still takes an enormous effort to retrain, reskill and mentally repurpose communities that were focused on one specific industry for a long time.
Looking at the numbers for H1-B visas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#H-1B_demographics_and_tables) I would argue that the impact on the US employment market (146,305,000 labor force with a total of 315,857 H1-Bs issued in 2014; see also https://www.bls.gov/cps/aa2014/cpsaat11b.htm) as a whole will be rather negligable. I find it difficult to argue that this is anything but another populist stunt.
new employees will get $10 k to $20 k per year, much more if they're in a European country
So I take it you haven't been to Europe yet?
So that leaves the "massive financial and tech hub" you describe in England. How many financial companies are going to want to maintain, never mind expand, their presence in a country which is allowed to actively monitor their most secure communications? If I were CEO of a global financial company I would be very concerned about the backlash from my customers if my company were to remain in such a country.
Not really a problem after Brexit. ;-)
Not necessarily, see this for further info: http://acgblog.org/2015/10/08/poster-107-microbial-emulsion-matrices-a-novel-method-to-produce-stable-orally-available-capsules-for-fecal-microbiota-transplantation-to-treat-clostridium-difficile/
It doesn't matter WHY it affects them differently, except as trivia.
You haven't followed research into metabolic syndrome and the microbiome in the last decade and a half or so I presume? "Why" is the most important question when it comes to IBD and metabolic syndrome, because there doesn't appear to be a simple deterministic correlation. People react differently to the same kind of food intake while on the same activity level.
Unless you intend to specifically analyse, combat and treat individual microbiomes in the stomach of every patient, you're not going to be able to do much else.
That's exactly the point of this kind of research..
You're missing the point. This is about explaining why the same amount of food (or energy) intake affects people differently. Research into metabolic syndrome has shown that there is no simple relation: eat less -> lose weight -> get healthy. Once you know what influences weight gain or loss, given a certain amount of food intake you can adjust for other parameters.
This might explain why some recipients of FMT for treatment of C. diff. and CU have seen weight gain without changing their diets.
That's why Brexit is such a beauty, even if it never happens a lot of bad legislation will pass unnoticed.
and for all those people who have such hate for systemd.... How many actually had used init.d?
You don't necessarily have to have experience with sysvinit to hate systemd. For many it is making such a compelling argument on its own that you don't need to compare it to other systems.
But what's that worth? Apple employs what, 5000 to 6000 people on their campus in Ireland, so losing those may impact the Dublin economy in the very short term but will do absolutely nothing to the EU. It's not like the company was paying any meaningful amount of taxes anyway. The economic loss on the whole would be short term and negligible.
*smack* "Where's the comma!" *smack*
Difficult to know in a post-gender world.... :)
They were suffering before the UK joined the EU, suffered through complete neglect by the central government during the past decades and will now keep suffering the hardship. And they will in all likelihood continue to think this is all the EU's fault, because that's what populist politicians tell them. They will believe it because they lack a proper education. It's not funny, it's thoroughly depressing and a trend I see spreading throughout the western world. :-(