To invest you should have money. Most children are born broke or in debt (as their parents are in debt). How do they get money to invest. Unless the US govt taxes the corporates in shares and then distributes the shares to citizens (at which point you have reinvented communism) Are you a communist?
Bespoke hand written software to be the new luxury item. We are already halfway on the path with iPhones selling more than other phones because they are MORE expensive.
Actually software that writes software was the big new thing in the 80s but then in the 90s offshoring happened. When its 10x cheaper to hire a software engineer you can just throw 5 people at the problem and get the result cheaper than any AI software writing software. However over the last 20 years salaries offshore have grown so that the advantage is only 3x instead of 10x and now again software that can write software is coming back in vogue. The thing which can save software employment is the massive deployment of hardware robots, the amount of software product needed will be so huge and needed so fast that companies will go back to throwing bodies at it instead of trying to build AIs which can do the job. This will generate 10-20 years of software employment. In the meantime cost of living should go down with massive unemployment in other fields so software engineers should be able to have a decent standard of living for another 20 years even if their salaries stay stagnant or even go down (but go down slower than the cost of living)
The entitlements could be solved easily by passing a law that only taxpayers get to vote so retirees dont get a vote and then abolishing Social Security and medicare and using the money to forgive student loans and fund free college. The X generation and millenials will vote yes and throw the boomers under the bus. On a family level it will be revenue neutral. yes you will have to pay to take care of your parents in retirement but you will not have to pay for your kids' college. People who did not have kids are so screwed.....
You can still get jobs. You just dont earn the same. 20 years back a good software engineer could make 100-200 dollars an hour and have a lifestyle similar to a doctor. That doesnt happen anymore. The salesmen you hate for charging for copies are the one who were protecting the ecosystem with a high barrier to entry. The extra margin left room for innovation. Right now everyone is just running to stay in the same place and new stuff only gets created in college labs or in a few heavily funded unicorns.
We are trying to do to movies what we did to software with open source. Reduce its value so much that the people working in the industry struggle to survive. In a capitalist society if you dont pay cash for something you dont value it. We devalued software development by going from license fee based software to open source. Now we want to devalue entertainment by going from Studio funded blockbusters to all Indy movies made on shoestring budgets where the actors have to hold day jobs (Just like those contributing to open source have to hold day jobs)
Base it out of Reno. On outwards legs it will carry Tesla Battery packs from the Tesla Reno Battery factory. On inwards legs it will use Jet Fuel. So Battery Packs get delivered to where they are needed while doing something usefull
It is a losing battle to try and solve performance in the programmer space. The Compiler does a much better job of optimization due to a multitude of compiler trics including both Static and dynamic analysis, cache analysis and so on. The programmer trying to write the most efficient code should rather spend his/her time trying to use out of the box algos as far as possible as the compiler knows how to fine tune those. next they should run a profiling tool like jprofiler and see where the job is actually spending its time rather than trying to say this is probably the heaviest part of the program. With multiple cores and multiple instruction pipelines and optimizing compilers the bottleneck is oftentimes not where we would think it to be. Once we find the bottleneck using a profiling tool than we can optimize it. In most cases 2% of the code is causing 98% of the bottleneck so its a much better use of programmer time (which is of course more expensive than computer time in most cases) to work backwards. 1 Write your code so that its correct irrespective of efficiency, 2 profile and then 3 fix the bottlenecks rather than trying to find the most efficient algorithms before you write your code.
Nope not so easy. We had a female Client Manager reduce our team . When project budget got cut she let go of the 3 women in the team and retained the 2 men. One of these women then sued our company when we laid them off. Her claim for discrimination was that the Client liked working with men and had laid off the 3 women in a discriminatory fashion. We settled out of court. Californiaaaah!
That should be part of the Constitution. For all high govt posts like President Senator Judge once your term is over you need to emigrate to the Mars colony. Ahving ex President's hanging around just cramps the style of the current President. Also Maximum age for elected Office needs to be 50. No more 70 year old Presidents and 90 year old Senators. Let them go and teach on Mars.
Defense not bases in 152 countries. A standing army is actually against the constitution hence the second amendment so that there are enough trained militia to raise an army in times of war.
They need the marketers on board to sell it to the rest of the company. Once the marketers have gone through the pain of relocating they will take great pleasure on forcing the same down other people's throats.
H1Bs will be happy to fill these roles. Anyway they are leaving their friends and families. New York, San Francisco, West Bumfuck, Alabama. Its all the same to them.
"I sacrificed my family life to get where I am. Why does SHE get to work from home and pick up her kids?" Sounds familiar I work in consulting and a lot of my employees work as contractors. I meet with the client managers for feedback regularly and I get maximum complaints about our female employees taking days off or WFH to deal with school, sickness etc. Funny thing its mostly the female Client managers complaining not the males. Maybe the males expect women to be taking time off to deal with kid issues. But its wierd that its always women complaining about other women taking time off to deal with kids. I have even had one say "I dont take time off when my kid is sick . Why does your contractor take a half day to go watch a recital?"
States are sovereign not good or evil. Its the people's business what kind of govt they have and if they dont like it they can always do a revolution. Not outsiders' business Your arrogance and hubris that you decide what is good and evil for a different country is the dangerous kind of thinking that causes World Wars. Unfortunately Chickenhawks like you are not the ones doing the bleeding when that happens.
The Mangalyaan is old news. India is already working on Chandrayaan 2 which will have a lunar lander and Mangalyaan 2 which may have a lander. China is working on a space station. Yes its cheaper to do stuff in India but the focus should not be on just the cost, it should be on India building up capability to do stuff. BTW the reason its cheaper to do stuff in India is salaries can be lower as the salaries of the working class are at survival levels. Something to grow out of not celebrate.
How about California seceding from the US so it can stop paying into the US Federal Military budget and use the savings to fund free healthcare and College. California already duplicates most federal social programs as it provides more so the taxes California pays to the Federal Budget are used almost exclusively for military spending. As Californians are non interventionist they can live happily with a smaller military- as it is they have natural borders Mountains and Deserts and Oceans so the cost of guarding the frontiers from the rest of USA is not going to be that high - heck it could even be an open border Canadian style.
For North Korea - remove US troops from South Korea and Japan. For Iran remove US troops from the Gulf and stop funding Israel. Problem solved. When somebody comes into your house and puts huge amounts of military power on your doorstep the normal response is to develop nuclear weapons to achieve strategic parity. US stationed Nuclear weapons in South Korea and let Israel have nuclear weapons. Both countries developed weapons in response so you dont get to blame them for your bloated defense budget. Stop with the victim blaming. The days of "She asked for it" are long gone
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In what universe is your competitors trying to copy you and failing translates into "he future of Evan Spiegel's company doesn't look all that good."
To invest you should have money. Most children are born broke or in debt (as their parents are in debt). How do they get money to invest. Unless the US govt taxes the corporates in shares and then distributes the shares to citizens (at which point you have reinvented communism) Are you a communist?
Pay people who cant cut it in US society to move to the third world.
Bespoke hand written software to be the new luxury item. We are already halfway on the path with iPhones selling more than other phones because they are MORE expensive.
Actually software that writes software was the big new thing in the 80s but then in the 90s offshoring happened. When its 10x cheaper to hire a software engineer you can just throw 5 people at the problem and get the result cheaper than any AI software writing software. However over the last 20 years salaries offshore have grown so that the advantage is only 3x instead of 10x and now again software that can write software is coming back in vogue.
The thing which can save software employment is the massive deployment of hardware robots, the amount of software product needed will be so huge and needed so fast that companies will go back to throwing bodies at it instead of trying to build AIs which can do the job. This will generate 10-20 years of software employment. In the meantime cost of living should go down with massive unemployment in other fields so software engineers should be able to have a decent standard of living for another 20 years even if their salaries stay stagnant or even go down (but go down slower than the cost of living)
The entitlements could be solved easily by passing a law that only taxpayers get to vote so retirees dont get a vote and then abolishing Social Security and medicare and using the money to forgive student loans and fund free college. The X generation and millenials will vote yes and throw the boomers under the bus. On a family level it will be revenue neutral. yes you will have to pay to take care of your parents in retirement but you will not have to pay for your kids' college. People who did not have kids are so screwed.....
You can still get jobs. You just dont earn the same. 20 years back a good software engineer could make 100-200 dollars an hour and have a lifestyle similar to a doctor. That doesnt happen anymore. The salesmen you hate for charging for copies are the one who were protecting the ecosystem with a high barrier to entry. The extra margin left room for innovation. Right now everyone is just running to stay in the same place and new stuff only gets created in college labs or in a few heavily funded unicorns.
We are trying to do to movies what we did to software with open source. Reduce its value so much that the people working in the industry struggle to survive. In a capitalist society if you dont pay cash for something you dont value it. We devalued software development by going from license fee based software to open source. Now we want to devalue entertainment by going from Studio funded blockbusters to all Indy movies made on shoestring budgets where the actors have to hold day jobs (Just like those contributing to open source have to hold day jobs)
Base it out of Reno. On outwards legs it will carry Tesla Battery packs from the Tesla Reno Battery factory. On inwards legs it will use Jet Fuel. So Battery Packs get delivered to where they are needed while doing something usefull
Studio is an IDE. You can swap out the Microsoft compiler if you dont like it.
It is a losing battle to try and solve performance in the programmer space. The Compiler does a much better job of optimization due to a multitude of compiler trics including both Static and dynamic analysis, cache analysis and so on. The programmer trying to write the most efficient code should rather spend his/her time trying to use out of the box algos as far as possible as the compiler knows how to fine tune those. next they should run a profiling tool like jprofiler and see where the job is actually spending its time rather than trying to say this is probably the heaviest part of the program. With multiple cores and multiple instruction pipelines and optimizing compilers the bottleneck is oftentimes not where we would think it to be. Once we find the bottleneck using a profiling tool than we can optimize it. In most cases 2% of the code is causing 98% of the bottleneck so its a much better use of programmer time (which is of course more expensive than computer time in most cases) to work backwards.
1 Write your code so that its correct irrespective of efficiency,
2 profile and then
3 fix the bottlenecks
rather than trying to find the most efficient algorithms before you write your code.
Nope not so easy. We had a female Client Manager reduce our team . When project budget got cut she let go of the 3 women in the team and retained the 2 men. One of these women then sued our company when we laid them off. Her claim for discrimination was that the Client liked working with men and had laid off the 3 women in a discriminatory fashion. We settled out of court. Californiaaaah!
That should be part of the Constitution. For all high govt posts like President Senator Judge once your term is over you need to emigrate to the Mars colony. Ahving ex President's hanging around just cramps the style of the current President. Also Maximum age for elected Office needs to be 50. No more 70 year old Presidents and 90 year old Senators. Let them go and teach on Mars.
Do they have a Martian Visa. Otherwise they ARE illegal immigrants.
Fuel the Mars rocket with Coal. Create jobs while going to Mars and who cares about the pollution in space.
Defense not bases in 152 countries. A standing army is actually against the constitution hence the second amendment so that there are enough trained militia to raise an army in times of war.
They need the marketers on board to sell it to the rest of the company. Once the marketers have gone through the pain of relocating they will take great pleasure on forcing the same down other people's throats.
H1Bs will be happy to fill these roles. Anyway they are leaving their friends and families. New York, San Francisco, West Bumfuck, Alabama. Its all the same to them.
"I sacrificed my family life to get where I am. Why does SHE get to work from home and pick up her kids?" Sounds familiar
I work in consulting and a lot of my employees work as contractors. I meet with the client managers for feedback regularly and I get maximum complaints about our female employees taking days off or WFH to deal with school, sickness etc. Funny thing its mostly the female Client managers complaining not the males. Maybe the males expect women to be taking time off to deal with kid issues. But its wierd that its always women complaining about other women taking time off to deal with kids. I have even had one say "I dont take time off when my kid is sick . Why does your contractor take a half day to go watch a recital?"
States are sovereign not good or evil. Its the people's business what kind of govt they have and if they dont like it they can always do a revolution. Not outsiders' business
Your arrogance and hubris that you decide what is good and evil for a different country is the dangerous kind of thinking that causes World Wars.
Unfortunately Chickenhawks like you are not the ones doing the bleeding when that happens.
So because you are a special snowflake air travel has to become more expensive for us normal folks?
The Mangalyaan is old news. India is already working on Chandrayaan 2 which will have a lunar lander and Mangalyaan 2 which may have a lander. China is working on a space station. Yes its cheaper to do stuff in India but the focus should not be on just the cost, it should be on India building up capability to do stuff. BTW the reason its cheaper to do stuff in India is salaries can be lower as the salaries of the working class are at survival levels. Something to grow out of not celebrate.
What is this 2015?
How about California seceding from the US so it can stop paying into the US Federal Military budget and use the savings to fund free healthcare and College. California already duplicates most federal social programs as it provides more so the taxes California pays to the Federal Budget are used almost exclusively for military spending. As Californians are non interventionist they can live happily with a smaller military- as it is they have natural borders Mountains and Deserts and Oceans so the cost of guarding the frontiers from the rest of USA is not going to be that high - heck it could even be an open border Canadian style.
For North Korea - remove US troops from South Korea and Japan.
For Iran remove US troops from the Gulf and stop funding Israel.
Problem solved.
When somebody comes into your house and puts huge amounts of military power on your doorstep the normal response is to develop nuclear weapons to achieve strategic parity.
US stationed Nuclear weapons in South Korea and let Israel have nuclear weapons. Both countries developed weapons in response so you dont get to blame them for your bloated defense budget.
Stop with the victim blaming. The days of "She asked for it" are long gone