This is one reason why I never left Canada. You have to move certain places to find it, but you can still find an affordable house on a well-treed lot, 20-30 minutes away from work here.
Got that in Michigan, not too far from one of the major cities. Of course now I'm putting 40 miles a day on my car, driving a route with no buses, compared to 20 miles a day when I was more in the city (driving a route that buses would have taken an hour and a half...). Win some, lose some...
Yep, I would never write that much on a keyboardless device. However being able to review a document I'm working with while on the run is great for me.
So you review documents while on the run? You review documents when you are technically multitasking?
Geez!!
I hope you are not not another one of those useless professionals (doctors, lawyers, erected officials, etc.) that charge sky-high rates for little to no obvious value.
Software engineer, making a little less than average for my experience according to glass door. Most of my document reviews are the papers I'm working on for graduate school, which I mostly pay for since I'm working full time too. Two jobs at once, and only getting paid for one, keeps one busy.
The FBI should start sending out fake Nigerian spam, then sending anyone who responds an automated warning that "if this were a real scam, you'd be broke soon." Call it a mass education campaign.
Bah, the FBI, always trying to keep me from my rightful millions!
A friend fell hard for an American nurse he meet over the Internet who works for a hospital in Nigeria. This "relationship" went on for a whole year. When he lost his job and started having financial difficulties, I found out about his Internet girlfriend and started asking his questions. It was too late. He wired his entire savings of $5K on the promise that he would get back his money plus $10K to "hold" for her until she got back to the US. When the check didn't show up, the amount that he would hold gradually increased to $20K. He got mad when I told him he got scammed by a Nigarian confidence scammer. The only proof that he has that this "woman" exist are pictures and texts. No video, no audio. A year later he is still waiting for his check, still thinks he has a girlfriend and believes that she is the victim of the Nigerian government because the president is too ill to sign anyone's paycheck.
Question 1 to self, is it too good to be true? Question 2 to self, are you willing to do anything to make it true. If either or both answers are yes... well unfortunately too many people that answer yes don't really care to move onto the realization that unless you are born to wealth or something, good things come from equally hard work and some things you can't have no matter how hard you work.
Sure, but Microsoft doesn't need to know what I'm working on for this to work. I can open a copy of the document read-only from the cloud-storage (or private server) of my choice.
Fully agreed on this point, I prefer cloud storage servers with encryption keys I hold on to.
Microsoft doesn't "need" to know what you, I, or anyone else are working on. It's not a big deal to re-open a document on a different device without giving your life's story to Microsoft (or any other Big Cloud company).
This is just an excuse to loot your personal/corporate data under the excuse of a tiny bit more convenience.
Also, the functions of phones and "desktop" devices (not really desktops, could be laptops with a keyboard) are orthogonal. The first are for brief communications, (yes) talking, recording of data (e.g. fitness tracking), and media consumption. But they stink at content production, which "desktop" devices excel at. Try writing several pages on a phone or many tablets -- it amounts to torture.
Yep, I would never write that much on a keyboardless device. However being able to review a document I'm working with while on the run is great for me.
Sounds like a good use for a owner swappable extended range battery. Though I would think manufacturers would have looked into it. Maybe it is like phone manufactures not wanting to let owners replace batteries. Though it may simply be considered too dangerous, in case 1 out of 100000 users manages to blow up a battery.
Congratulations, you're a normal human being who is able to take criticism without having your life ruined like everyone who complains about Stack Overflow.
But... but... I want to be a special snowflake, not normal!... sorry, just had to.
Why do that though? If you hire remote, why pay soneone in rural America a fair wage (or even an inflated wage) when you can pay someone in India less than minimum wage?
I had a few good years reworking the crap that came back from a company in India. The US company that out sourced would have spent less by keeping it in country in the first place.
I agree that most of the stuff I read on Stack Overflow is pretty high quality. Although it does tend towards the curt. That in itself is no bad thing: when I want an answer, I just want an answer - what buttons to press, I don't want to be lectured on principles, alternatives, the respondent's preferred alternative or what is in vogue that month.
But there are many people who reply, who seem to be mostly concerned with displaying their own talents for creating complexity out of simplicity, (imagined) superiority and opinions-as-fact. Few of them actually contribute anything worthwhile, but they do create a toxic environment that I can see, would deter people less thick-skinned from coming back.
The couple of times I used Stack Overflow the questions I posed had fairly obvious answers, I just hadn't thought of them yet. The answers were rather curt and borderline offensive but gave me enough to figure out I was being an idiot and find the answer to my question. I could see thinner skinned being offended by the responses but I got my question answered and don't particularly care about the tone.
You probably can't. The issue is finding talent that can do the job that is required. It's not that there aren't competent engineers in other states, it's just that engineers that are competent at the specific needs of something like Facebook are very, very hard to find.
Honestly curious, what are the specific needs of Facebook beyond being able to develop web apps? I know a lot of data gathering and correlation is also involved, but I've learned about the same level of those skills in college as what college taught me for my current jobs. I only got to the level where I am by learning on the job, not sure how Facebook would be much different from that since I don't think there is any college that specifically teaches courses targeted at Facebook, in California or otherwise.
That is a rather ignorant way of looking at things. Inflation is caused by printing too much money. The federal reserve is largely in control of inflation, and can usually get as much or as little as they want. Inflation is not controlled by either the maximum or minimum wage. For more information on this topic, look up the monetary equation mv=pq. Raising the minimum wage doesn't affect inflation, but it increases unemployment as some businesses won't be able to afford the new higher wages, and will hire fewer people. The labor pool has its own supply demand curve. Again, if you don't understand why it is called a curve, please don't waste your time arguing. To really understand this topic well it would be helpful to get a good economics book.
Inflation is also impacted by increased demand. If people have more money but the supply of the goods they want to buy does not increase, we have inflation due to more demand than supply (item 3 in the link). If products become more expensive to produce (having to pay workers more), we have inflation as companies pass on this cost (or hire less people as you mentioned), item 4 in the link.
I did a couple years programming Ada, good language if data translation mistakes are unacceptable, such as aviation. OK, well the mistakes still happen but the language catches more than the C did with basic casts.
Also dental, and I imagine vision, too. Nobody can tell you what something is actually going to cost you out-of-pocket, because the insurance company will say "we'll pay this much", but when the doctor/dentist goes to submit the claim, they say "oh well we're only really going to pay this much, LOL" and the patient gets stuck with the bill. WHY IS THIS ALLOWED!? If it were anything else I'm pretty sure it would be considered fraud.
Most of the time I've seen a discrepancy between the estimated and actual bill, it happens because the doctor doesn't take the time to check what the insurance actually covers when the write up the estimate. Just my experience though.
The number of vacation days you receive often increases with your number of years at a company, as, often, does your pay. New(er), perhaps younger, employees often start out with lower salary and fewer vacation days. How is this a revelation? In addition, people higher up the salary scale may have more experience, perhaps from somewhere else, and negotiated more vacation days during the hiring and/or annual review process. Less experienced employees don't have that leverage.
I would hope the study took that into account, if not, your thoughts have merit.
Until a software update breaks them, or Apple or Amazon chooses to forcibly delete them from your own phone, as they have already done in the past, or you lose access to your account for any reason, etc.
The books aren't yours if they depend on anything you can't give yourself or the purchase agreement is for access or license.
Or if I have a house fire, but then any of my paper books will be irretrievable too. Paper books don't come with their own built in light or fit 100 in my pocket. Sure there are trade offs and my trade off with a full time job and doing PHD research is I almost never have time to read in places where I have a book handy. My phone is always handy as it fits in my pocket, so reading on my phone gets the nod.
Nope, all my books are on my phone, once purchased and downloaded anyway. I suppose I can wait for a day for the book to download when I buy a new one, I'm just not that patient.
Yep, but if all the people who are no longer being fed by the grocery stores all follow the mountain men into their territory, they could be in trouble too. No matter what skills people have, I'm not sure the land can support our current population without electricity. The mountain men would probably be the ones to survive, if they can get away from all the other people that wont make it.
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This is one reason why I never left Canada. You have to move certain places to find it, but you can still find an affordable house on a well-treed lot, 20-30 minutes away from work here.
Got that in Michigan, not too far from one of the major cities. Of course now I'm putting 40 miles a day on my car, driving a route with no buses, compared to 20 miles a day when I was more in the city (driving a route that buses would have taken an hour and a half...). Win some, lose some...
Yep, I would never write that much on a keyboardless device. However being able to review a document I'm working with while on the run is great for me.
So you review documents while on the run? You review documents when you are technically multitasking?
Geez!!
I hope you are not not another one of those useless professionals (doctors, lawyers, erected officials, etc.) that charge sky-high rates for little to no obvious value.
Software engineer, making a little less than average for my experience according to glass door. Most of my document reviews are the papers I'm working on for graduate school, which I mostly pay for since I'm working full time too. Two jobs at once, and only getting paid for one, keeps one busy.
The FBI should start sending out fake Nigerian spam, then sending anyone who responds an automated warning that "if this were a real scam, you'd be broke soon." Call it a mass education campaign.
Bah, the FBI, always trying to keep me from my rightful millions!
A friend fell hard for an American nurse he meet over the Internet who works for a hospital in Nigeria. This "relationship" went on for a whole year. When he lost his job and started having financial difficulties, I found out about his Internet girlfriend and started asking his questions. It was too late. He wired his entire savings of $5K on the promise that he would get back his money plus $10K to "hold" for her until she got back to the US. When the check didn't show up, the amount that he would hold gradually increased to $20K. He got mad when I told him he got scammed by a Nigarian confidence scammer. The only proof that he has that this "woman" exist are pictures and texts. No video, no audio. A year later he is still waiting for his check, still thinks he has a girlfriend and believes that she is the victim of the Nigerian government because the president is too ill to sign anyone's paycheck.
Question 1 to self, is it too good to be true? Question 2 to self, are you willing to do anything to make it true. If either or both answers are yes... well unfortunately too many people that answer yes don't really care to move onto the realization that unless you are born to wealth or something, good things come from equally hard work and some things you can't have no matter how hard you work.
Sure, but Microsoft doesn't need to know what I'm working on for this to work. I can open a copy of the document read-only from the cloud-storage (or private server) of my choice.
Fully agreed on this point, I prefer cloud storage servers with encryption keys I hold on to.
Microsoft doesn't "need" to know what you, I, or anyone else are working on. It's not a big deal to re-open a document on a different device without giving your life's story to Microsoft (or any other Big Cloud company).
This is just an excuse to loot your personal/corporate data under the excuse of a tiny bit more convenience.
Also, the functions of phones and "desktop" devices (not really desktops, could be laptops with a keyboard) are orthogonal. The first are for brief communications, (yes) talking, recording of data (e.g. fitness tracking), and media consumption. But they stink at content production, which "desktop" devices excel at. Try writing several pages on a phone or many tablets -- it amounts to torture.
Yep, I would never write that much on a keyboardless device. However being able to review a document I'm working with while on the run is great for me.
Sounds like a good use for a owner swappable extended range battery. Though I would think manufacturers would have looked into it. Maybe it is like phone manufactures not wanting to let owners replace batteries. Though it may simply be considered too dangerous, in case 1 out of 100000 users manages to blow up a battery.
You planning on providing 2 year olds to identify cars vs fish 24/7?
Congratulations, you're a normal human being who is able to take criticism without having your life ruined like everyone who complains about Stack Overflow.
But... but... I want to be a special snowflake, not normal! ... sorry, just had to.
But then you wouldn't have had a job. :(
Probably not, yay outsourcing for producing US jobs? I is confuse :)
Why do that though? If you hire remote, why pay soneone in rural America a fair wage (or even an inflated wage) when you can pay someone in India less than minimum wage?
I had a few good years reworking the crap that came back from a company in India. The US company that out sourced would have spent less by keeping it in country in the first place.
I agree that most of the stuff I read on Stack Overflow is pretty high quality. Although it does tend towards the curt. That in itself is no bad thing: when I want an answer, I just want an answer - what buttons to press, I don't want to be lectured on principles, alternatives, the respondent's preferred alternative or what is in vogue that month.
But there are many people who reply, who seem to be mostly concerned with displaying their own talents for creating complexity out of simplicity, (imagined) superiority and opinions-as-fact. Few of them actually contribute anything worthwhile, but they do create a toxic environment that I can see, would deter people less thick-skinned from coming back.
The couple of times I used Stack Overflow the questions I posed had fairly obvious answers, I just hadn't thought of them yet. The answers were rather curt and borderline offensive but gave me enough to figure out I was being an idiot and find the answer to my question. I could see thinner skinned being offended by the responses but I got my question answered and don't particularly care about the tone.
You probably can't. The issue is finding talent that can do the job that is required. It's not that there aren't competent engineers in other states, it's just that engineers that are competent at the specific needs of something like Facebook are very, very hard to find.
Honestly curious, what are the specific needs of Facebook beyond being able to develop web apps? I know a lot of data gathering and correlation is also involved, but I've learned about the same level of those skills in college as what college taught me for my current jobs. I only got to the level where I am by learning on the job, not sure how Facebook would be much different from that since I don't think there is any college that specifically teaches courses targeted at Facebook, in California or otherwise.
That is a rather ignorant way of looking at things. Inflation is caused by printing too much money. The federal reserve is largely in control of inflation, and can usually get as much or as little as they want. Inflation is not controlled by either the maximum or minimum wage. For more information on this topic, look up the monetary equation mv=pq. Raising the minimum wage doesn't affect inflation, but it increases unemployment as some businesses won't be able to afford the new higher wages, and will hire fewer people. The labor pool has its own supply demand curve. Again, if you don't understand why it is called a curve, please don't waste your time arguing. To really understand this topic well it would be helpful to get a good economics book.
You are oversimplifying a bit: https://www.moneycrashers.com/...
Inflation is also impacted by increased demand. If people have more money but the supply of the goods they want to buy does not increase, we have inflation due to more demand than supply (item 3 in the link). If products become more expensive to produce (having to pay workers more), we have inflation as companies pass on this cost (or hire less people as you mentioned), item 4 in the link.
Outsource it all to Africa as even India’s too expensive now.
Outsource it to pretty much any state east of California, it is still going to be cheaper than hiring someone local.
I did a couple years programming Ada, good language if data translation mistakes are unacceptable, such as aviation. OK, well the mistakes still happen but the language catches more than the C did with basic casts.
Also dental, and I imagine vision, too. Nobody can tell you what something is actually going to cost you out-of-pocket, because the insurance company will say "we'll pay this much", but when the doctor/dentist goes to submit the claim, they say "oh well we're only really going to pay this much, LOL" and the patient gets stuck with the bill. WHY IS THIS ALLOWED!? If it were anything else I'm pretty sure it would be considered fraud.
Most of the time I've seen a discrepancy between the estimated and actual bill, it happens because the doctor doesn't take the time to check what the insurance actually covers when the write up the estimate. Just my experience though.
Sure it's going to be a while before you see much 8k VIDEO content...
But what the naysayers are ignore is how awesome these will be for images.
Also a nice side effect of putting on 8K displays, is it drives the cots of 4k displays even cheaper in the meantime.
Yep, if they get these out, I may finally see a 26" 4k monitor at a price I'm willing to spend. Yay!
From your own post
*Hijack = illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit --> change the meaning of a word or term
What you're demonstrating isn't something bad, it's just language evolving like it always does. Hell, even "computer" is a "hijacked" word.
I don't know, the media illegally seizing words seems as bad to me as illegally stealing a transport... all the same, yep.
The number of vacation days you receive often increases with your number of years at a company, as, often, does your pay. New(er), perhaps younger, employees often start out with lower salary and fewer vacation days. How is this a revelation? In addition, people higher up the salary scale may have more experience, perhaps from somewhere else, and negotiated more vacation days during the hiring and/or annual review process. Less experienced employees don't have that leverage.
I would hope the study took that into account, if not, your thoughts have merit.
Well the kid was accessing data that was meant to be secured, if poorly. These researchers are accessing data that is meant to be public.
They can do whatever they like with my linked in data, it was put up there for everyone in the world to see.
Until a software update breaks them, or Apple or Amazon chooses to forcibly delete them from your own phone, as they have already done in the past, or you lose access to your account for any reason, etc.
The books aren't yours if they depend on anything you can't give yourself or the purchase agreement is for access or license.
Or if I have a house fire, but then any of my paper books will be irretrievable too. Paper books don't come with their own built in light or fit 100 in my pocket. Sure there are trade offs and my trade off with a full time job and doing PHD research is I almost never have time to read in places where I have a book handy. My phone is always handy as it fits in my pocket, so reading on my phone gets the nod.
Nope, all my books are on my phone, once purchased and downloaded anyway. I suppose I can wait for a day for the book to download when I buy a new one, I'm just not that patient.
Yep, but if all the people who are no longer being fed by the grocery stores all follow the mountain men into their territory, they could be in trouble too. No matter what skills people have, I'm not sure the land can support our current population without electricity. The mountain men would probably be the ones to survive, if they can get away from all the other people that wont make it.
Hey, all my books are on my phone. What do you expect me to do without broadband, walk to a bookstore?!