Re:Companies will stab you in the back,...
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Just one question: What is an "at-will" employee? The context seems to imply that it is exclusive to Michigan. And, since I work there, I'd like to know how it effects me.
You're forgetting something. The median salary is an aggregate of all Americans. That includes rural areas as well as urban areas.
A salary of $25,000 is a nice amount of money in many rural areas. A nice, 3-bedroom house only costs $40-50,000. Heck, you can take the family out to dinner for $20 in a rural area.
Now an urban area is a whole different story. $50,000 is a just-getting-by salary. Home prices where I live (outside of Detroit), start at $120,000. And that's for a 1000 sq. ft. place. Dinner for the family? $120. Day care costs $300 a week!
A union of software developers doesn't have to follow a traditional structure. In case of a labor union, there's basically no difference between one person and another. So, the amount of work that Mr. can do is very similar to the amount of work that Mr. can do. That's one reason why the labor union has that structure.
But let's be creative. We're talking about saving the jobs of some people who are technically proficient and motivated, but who don't want to be exploited! A software union can be a collection of elite individuals. It can be democratic. It can be changing.
The problem isn't US IT workers making less money. The problem is that the top executives would be making more money at the expense of the average US IT worker.
You're working with a serious misconception. Unions traditionally aren't in place to hijack a company's profit. They exist to help workers from being exploited by the coalition of employers that try to maximize their profit.
If every shoe company in the US decided to use American workers, do you think that Americans would stop buying shoes because of price inflation? Of course not. About the only person benefiting from Nike using cheap foreign labor is the CEO.
Uh, dude, Gore never said he invented the Internet. That's just something the media took out of context and ran with it. Likewise, Gore never said he was the reason love canal was cleaned up.
Re:Steep learning curve means easy to learn
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Who's Afraid Of C++?
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After words are misused enough, their definitions change. While it's true that the origin of the phrase comes from psychology, most people know the conventional use for the word.
Learning a programming language is the easy part. Actually using it wisely and thoughtfully is the more difficult endeavor.
I remember when I was a college student, and I felt so cool because I knew how to use obscure c++ syntax. I thought I knew so, so much.
Now, with a code base of over a million lines and an office full of class diagrams, I'm constantly reminded of how little I truly know. But that's not a bad thing; I constantly learn new things, and each day brings me more wisdom. I just think it's funny how my paradigm shifted.
Programming is very similar to literature in that it's somewhat easy to learn the language syntax, but it's very, very difficult to use the language appropriately. That's the difference between being a novice and a master. Yes, you may be able to learn C++ in 7 days, but it will take you several years (at least) to become fluent.
I know that clothing manufacturers pay rapper to wear their clothing, so why not pay them to write about their clothing as well? There is evidence that this type of product placement goes on in other medias like late night talk shows, so it's not so far fetched. One of my old hobbies used to be seeing which products Dave Letterman would mention in his monologue. Remember, even bad jokes are good jokes for advertisers.
One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of senior citizens and even baby boomers aren't as aware of blatant advertisement as Gen-X folk. It always cracked me up to hear my grandfather claim that the golfers wore a certain name brand because they actually like that product. Of course sometimes this is the case, but usually money talks more.
I like Shadowrun, but to be honest, most of the setting makes no sense to someone who knows politics, history, and economics.
Are you implying that if a person thinks the setting do make sense, then that person doesn't know much about politics, history, and economics? I thought the settings made sense, and I thought I knew much about those topics well. Please enlighten me to why Shadowrun doesn't make sense.
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Just one question: What is an "at-will" employee? The context seems to imply that it is exclusive to Michigan. And, since I work there, I'd like to know how it effects me.
You're forgetting something. The median salary is an aggregate of all Americans. That includes rural areas as well as urban areas.
A salary of $25,000 is a nice amount of money in many rural areas. A nice, 3-bedroom house only costs $40-50,000. Heck, you can take the family out to dinner for $20 in a rural area.
Now an urban area is a whole different story. $50,000 is a just-getting-by salary. Home prices where I live (outside of Detroit), start at $120,000. And that's for a 1000 sq. ft. place. Dinner for the family? $120. Day care costs $300 a week!
A union of software developers doesn't have to follow a traditional structure. In case of a labor union, there's basically no difference between one person and another. So, the amount of work that Mr. can do is very similar to the amount of work that Mr. can do. That's one reason why the labor union has that structure.
But let's be creative. We're talking about saving the jobs of some people who are technically proficient and motivated, but who don't want to be exploited! A software union can be a collection of elite individuals. It can be democratic. It can be changing.
The problem isn't US IT workers making less money. The problem is that the top executives would be making more money at the expense of the average US IT worker.
You're working with a serious misconception. Unions traditionally aren't in place to hijack a company's profit. They exist to help workers from being exploited by the coalition of employers that try to maximize their profit.
If every shoe company in the US decided to use American workers, do you think that Americans would stop buying shoes because of price inflation? Of course not. About the only person benefiting from Nike using cheap foreign labor is the CEO.
Uh, dude, Gore never said he invented the Internet. That's just something the media took out of context and ran with it. Likewise, Gore never said he was the reason love canal was cleaned up.
After words are misused enough, their definitions change. While it's true that the origin of the phrase comes from psychology, most people know the conventional use for the word.
Learning a programming language is the easy part. Actually using it wisely and thoughtfully is the more difficult endeavor.
I remember when I was a college student, and I felt so cool because I knew how to use obscure c++ syntax. I thought I knew so, so much.
Now, with a code base of over a million lines and an office full of class diagrams, I'm constantly reminded of how little I truly know. But that's not a bad thing; I constantly learn new things, and each day brings me more wisdom. I just think it's funny how my paradigm shifted.
Programming is very similar to literature in that it's somewhat easy to learn the language syntax, but it's very, very difficult to use the language appropriately. That's the difference between being a novice and a master. Yes, you may be able to learn C++ in 7 days, but it will take you several years (at least) to become fluent.
Probably.
I know that clothing manufacturers pay rapper to wear their clothing, so why not pay them to write about their clothing as well? There is evidence that this type of product placement goes on in other medias like late night talk shows, so it's not so far fetched. One of my old hobbies used to be seeing which products Dave Letterman would mention in his monologue. Remember, even bad jokes are good jokes for advertisers.
One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of senior citizens and even baby boomers aren't as aware of blatant advertisement as Gen-X folk. It always cracked me up to hear my grandfather claim that the golfers wore a certain name brand because they actually like that product. Of course sometimes this is the case, but usually money talks more.
I like Shadowrun, but to be honest, most of the setting makes no sense to someone who knows politics, history, and economics.
Are you implying that if a person thinks the setting do make sense, then that person doesn't know much about politics, history, and economics? I thought the settings made sense, and I thought I knew much about those topics well. Please enlighten me to why Shadowrun doesn't make sense.